EMAIL: ipotapenko@hotmail.com NAME: Ivan Potapenko TOPIC: Surrealism COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: A Surrealistic View Of The Naturalistic World COUNTRY: Norway WEBPAGE: RENDERER USED: POV Ray 3.5 TOOLS USED: The GIMP RENDER TIME: 2h 38min HARDWARE USED: AMD Athlon 1,4GHz IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I was expirimenting with isosurfaces when I got the idea to make this image. My picture describes the world we live in and it's true nature. It shows how alone and lost we are, spending our lives on a small island. And though sometimes things look bright, red and colorful, the reality outside is grey and dark. Each thing in the scene is a symbol to something. The telescope is there because all of us want to see, understand and explain the world around, but the only thing we see is the fog (which is also present on the picture).The rainbow is our happy moments, but again the top of it disappears in the thick grey fog. The red star is love, sailing high above us. The worm is an unusual human being, who sticks out of the croud. He or she is special in some kind of way, not like rest. Though his tale is already in the croud. He has to adapt to the others - human beings don't like differences. The key and the blue cloud are symbols of our technology. Tower of stone is our culture. The white moon reminds us that the things we think are forever are always temporary. To the left you can see a half of a fishing rod. It's the link to other worlds. The line is thin and almost invisible. That's why we don't usually see it. Though it's hooked on to some-thing very usual - a cup. We look in the mirror to remember the moments of our past life. The idea behind the picture is really pissimistic. Though the door (in the middle) is still open. May be there is yet a way out? But where does thatdoor lead? DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: No rocket science here. Just the usual csg structures, some texture mapping (these textures were made with the GIMP) and some textures from povrays included library (T_Gold, T_Wood). The "cake" is an isosurface with 3d noise function. You can see a Julia fractal over the key (the cloud). Handle of the cup to the left is a heightfield. Cup itself is a SOR. The key is a prism. The star is asuperquadratic ellipsoid. Worm is a blob with a simple checker pattern.