TITLE: Bugs in Love
NAME: Thorsten Hahn
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: twinfire_98@yahoo.com
WEBPAGE: none
TOPIC: Insects and Spiders
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: is_0106c.jpg
ZIPFILE: is_0106c.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    MEGAPOV 0.5a

TOOLS USED: 

        WINNT 4.0 SP 6
        A KEYBOARD WITHOUT WINDOWS KEYS
        MEGAPOV TEXT-EDITOR
        PSP 4.12 (JPG-Conversion)
        VMWARE (for the Blue-Screen-Shot)

RENDER TIME: 
    0d 09h 36m 51s

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium III @ 1GHz


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

A bug flew lonely through this dark room. When it saw the wonderful blue light
on my monitor it came towards curious what strange being this would be. but
there romance had a short time to be. Filled with anger, rage and fury about
the last hour I spent working (without saving) when this little scene happened
I ended the lives of both bugs (while I think at least one will return).


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

As I saw the topic Insects and Spiders I really had no idea what to create.
Maybe a spider devouring some kind of insect. At least this image would contain
both an Insect and a Spider. But when I started to build a little bug out of
some cylinders for the legs and spheres for the body I came up with the idea
with the Blue-Screen. Since a Blue-Screen indicates the presence of a bug and a
bug is an insect this would be on topic.
So I began creating a keyboard beginning with one standard key out of meshes
that was copied until I had a full numpad keyset. Adding special designed keys
for Enter, Return, Shift Ctrl and the Space Bar I soon had my keyboard done.
The keys are yet missing the labels but I haven't figured out an easy way to do
it. (The Keyboard itself maybe wasn't created the most elegant way)
The Monitor is a simple collection of meshes with a sphere for the glass front
and the screenshot of a bluescreen right behind it. To make the Screen light I
placed an lightsource behind it and gave the texture a transparent filter. To
avoid projection of the screen on other objects such as the keyboard and walls
that should be added later I made the light power falling of at a high rate and
changed it to an area light-source. So I gain a soft blue projection at the
monitor only. (To make the Screen fully vizible I placed a white screen with an
high ambient value behind it and the light source.)
Since the bug idea looked a little off-topic at this stage I decided to place my
earlier created bug onto the screen and to name the image "Bugs in Love" so I
have at least one real insect in my scene.
The final steps were only to create a room, a desk and some items on it to make
the scene not looking so empty. Besides to the monitor there are to other light
sources in the room. One Area-Light inside the lamps light-bulb and another
shadowless centered in the room for the ambient light.