TITLE: Spider project

NAME: Jonathan Rafael Ghiglia
COUNTRY: Italy

EMAIL: jrg_pov@hotmail.com
WEBPAGE: not yet

TOPIC: Insects and spiders
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: jrgspid.jpg
ZIPFILE: jrgspid.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    MegaPov 0.7


TOOLS USED: 
    Moray 3.3, Paint Shop Pro, pencil and paper


RENDER TIME: 
    5 hours 14 minutes


HARDWARE USED: 
    Athlon 1 Ghz 256 MB


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


        They rejected my project, they told me it would be too dangerous,
they told me that it wasn't science, but I did not want to give up.
I spent two weeks in my cellar, almost without eating, developing my biggest
project ever: the perfect war machine, the perfect killer device! Every country
would want it. It could enter the best defences without being discovered, since

it's just a small, insignificant, repugnant spider: they ignore that it's got
the
most sophisticated cyber brain, together with the most invisible and yet
destructive
weapon ever made... we will see who's the mad here.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


First of all I want to thank:

Thomas Melly (http://www.tomandlu.co.uk) for providing me the sandwich model.

Chris Poole: for providing me the jewellers screwdriver (the metallic one) and
the tweezers (those on the book).

   I started to work on the topic at once. It took me the first week of May to
model the spider, but I had no
idea how to use it. I worked on a scene for a while, but at the end of May I
gave up and began a new scene (this one).
Basically, the scene was built up in Moray. Most objects are CSG. Then I started
to work on the code and added:
textures,
wires (sphere_sweeps),
the sheet of paper (isosurface),
some spline objects (using Chris Colefax' macros),
and obviously the spider.

The .zip file cointains only the spider code and two close-ups of the model.
The spider is modelled in a way it shouldn't be too hard to animate.

Anyway, this is my second entry. Hope you like it!

        Jonathan Rafael Ghiglia,
              26th June 2001, Florence.