EMAIL: diestel@steloj.de NAME: Wolfram Diestel TOPIC: Surrealism COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Death of surrealism COUNTRY: Germany WEBPAGE: RENDERER USED: Povray 3.5 TOOLS USED: Kpovmodeler, Perl, Python, Tgif (for prisms) RENDER TIME: 5 hours HARDWARE USED: Duron 700 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This is not a real surrealistic image. But it's _about_ surrealism. About it's death. Surrealism -- this is the art of visualizing dreams. This makes it impossible for modern man to create such kind of art. Yesterday I couldn't get to sleep Some sleeping pills gave me a dreamless night ending early in the morning, when I was roused up by the loud ringing of the alarm clock. The night was very short, it lacked some hour between 12 and midnight and it lacked any dreams. Or -- maybe -- there was a dream but it was killed by the short hand of the alarm clock reaching the other hand pointing to the five. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Being new to raytracing I could not do any complicated things in my image. Almost all is made with CSG. The pillow is a height field. The drops of blood are spheres created by a Perl script. The giraffe head I made with blobs. For the tree I implemented a tree algorithm described in a paper by Jason Weber and Joseph Penn in Python. But when I finally got all that nice trees with many small branches and leaves, I realized, that only a trunk with some Dali-like forkes on it looked much better in my simplistically image. Thus the tree generating program was overkill, but may be somebody would like to use it to make real trees. So I included it in the zip file. In the povray doc I did not find how to render sound as part of the image. So I had to symbolize the ringing alarm-clock with this strange transparent bells.