TITLE: Freaks NAME: Gilles L_vy COUNTRY: France (Paris) EMAIL: gilles.levy@plume.fr TOPIC: Elements COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: glfreaks.jpg ZIPFILE: glfreaks.zip RENDERER USED: Povray for windows 3.00e RENDER TIME: 55 minutes (800x600, AA 0.3) HARDWARE USED: Pentium II - 266 Mhz IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Just a ball in a box... But, at first, I had a certain surprise to discover that this image seems to evoke a kind of attack or rebellion (it was a little strange that those elementary forms could give this feeling). Subsequently, I decided to accentuate this impression : many little old wrinkle plastic cubes locking up gradually a generous radiant pompous and arrogant sphere. At the end, I understood that this image refer to an other old image I saw when I was young, the image of the final stage of an old film : "Freaks". HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED : - 3 declared objects : Superquadric cube, Sphere, Cylindre. - an intensive use of loops to generate the repetitive objects. - some random numbers (color and distribution). - And some others parameters to make many tests : the number of cubes, the ratio between cubes and hole, the density of the distribution, the relative dimensions of the objects...