TITLE: Nothing but the first
NAME: Enrique Sahagun Alonso
COUNTRY: Spain
EMAIL: enrique.sahagun@uam.es
WEBPAGE: www.robertoullan.tk
TOPIC: Speed
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: nothing.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    PovRay 3.6

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray 3.5 Corel Draw, Wings, PovRay 3.5, JASC Paint Shop Pro,
Fortran Powerstation   

RENDER TIME: 
    60 min
   

HARDWARE USED: 

 Pentium III 1.1GHz 256RAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


It is difficult to express speed in an only image so I better decided to depict
the 
necessity of being fast. The beginning of life is a good example. Something
inside
tells these cells (spermatozoids) to swim as fast as they can to reach the
ovum.
All of them will die but one, the one that will be part of a humanbeing. So only
the
winner counts. No-one but the first.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


This image is quite simple.

I have started working with media. I don't like media very much because I don't
understand
them very well (despite the tutorials). 

I mainly have used spotlights with an scattering media (the simplest one).

All my little boys have being done with Wings. Well, at least 10 of them, the
rest are copies. I have used 
Fortran to generate an script to repeat them randomly (I either understand
random numbers
in Pov code). 

One of them, the one which is close to the camera has been done with Wings and
is more complex than the rest.
It has an internal structure (invented by me) and it is textured with
transparent layers and IOR different from
1.