EMAIL: t.degroot@inter.nl.net
NAME: Thomas de Groot
TOPIC: Insects and Spiders
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: The Hunt
COUNTRY: The Netherlands
WEBPAGE: none
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1 / MegaPOV 0.7
TOOLS USED: Moray 3.3
RENDER TIME: 2 hours 40 minutes
HARDWARE USED: Compaq Presario 7EL7000T 1GHz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
In the Temple of the Spider, a single lamp attracts its prey...

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
The idea of the scene certainly has links with Tolkien and Lord Dunsany.
Most elements of the scene were first made with Moray. For the spider and the running figure, Inverse Kinematics were applied. Yes, you are right, I do not use (yet) Poser! The scenes of my parallel universe are peopled with these articulated puppets used for drawing classes, and they have something to do with my love for Surrealism (De Chirico for instance!) without a doubt.
The flagstones are made with a POV-Ray macro I wrote