EMAIL: delfeld@mailcity.com   
NAME:  Neal Delfeld  
TOPIC:  Insects and Spiders
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: A sense of arthropods.  
COUNTRY: USA (but I do not support the death penalty, despite Mr. Bush's contention)
WEBPAGE: 
RENDERER USED: MegaPov 0.5a
TOOLS USED: Paint Shop Pro 4
RENDER TIME: 20 minutes
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133

IMAGE DESCRIPTION and DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

1) The major ideas for this image originate from Paul Klee, "Notebooks 2". 
   a) The overall goal is essential, not visual, imitation.  
   b) Artistic forms are as alive as the object rendered.  More accurately: forms are mysterious, as are insects, and mysteries must be investigated or else what is produced still has irrational tension.
   c) This is a visual medium, so the concepts found in the scorpion must rationally meet visual concepts.  There is no other requirements, at this point.

2) Forms of support: 
   a) Exoskeleton, chitin (passive)
   b) Muscles, conscious thought (active)
   c) Tendons (connect active to passive, is itself passive)

3) All appendages on an insect are derived from the same genetic code segment (claws are genetically similar to legs, antennae, swimmerets, etc.).
   a) One shape is used throughout the scene through a number of transformations (with one variation: an added sphere).

4) Any existence takes in the world and extends itself into the world.  Thus, existence itself is its own 'a priori' necessity.
   a) This is represented visually by the scorpion being its own center of gravity (this may need justification against the bottom of the image being "down").
   b) Gravity visually is a center; a circle's radii represent lines of gravity.  
   c) All passive supports should "tend toward" the scorpion's center.
   d) Broad teardrop shapes in the carapace emphasize stability and centering by pointing back to the center.

5) Physical sense has a range (e.g., you cannot hear a car thirty miles away).
   a) The value of the color represents sensation's range, with constant value as outside that range.