TITLE: Midnight on the Farm or Arkansas Chickens VS. EBE's
NAME: H. E. Day (Howard Earl) 
COUNTRY: USA

EMAIL: PovRayGuy@aol.com
TOPIC: First Encounters
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: ac_vs_eb.jpg
ZIPFILE: ac_vs_eb.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Pov Ray 3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    Spline.inc, GUM, Grass.inc

RENDER TIME: 
    2 weeks (!)

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 200 Mhz 32MB RAM (Final Render)
and 486 DX 133Mhz 32MB (Design)


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

In the middle of the night, They came.  Probably the first sign of Their arrival

was the extra iron nail that Farmer Ged had absentmindedly left in the coop
after 
repairing the chicken wire.  Not that the nail was there, but that it was
hovering 
5 feet off the ground, spinning slowly.

Bob was getting his midnight snack when a brilliant flash of light slammed
through 
the coop.  Startled, he squawked and jumped back.  For several seconds Bob
stared.
Then, convinced that this was nothing that he should worry about, he walked back
to 
the water bin and took a deep drink of the filthy, poop ridden water.

John was sleeping quietly in the middle of the coop, when something that hummed

softly bumped against his rear, waking him.  Suddenly curious, he swung around 
to get a look at this odd object.  Little did he know that Joe, his life-long 
buddy, was getting a vital organ removed behind his back.

Strangly, Joe's coop-mates noticed little change in personality and habits
after
the incident. Of course they usually notice nothing at all, being chickens.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Chickens + ET Livestock mutilations = Humor!
When I saw the current topic, I just couldn't resist...

The chickens are mostly blobs with a few bezier patches thrown in. The coop
walls are
made out of superellipoids, and the nails are just 2 unioned cylinders.  The
chicken 
wire is a bezier patch with a transparent .GIF texture.
The beams of light are an area light shining through a sphere with a scattering
media. 
(The 2 week render time is probably this bugger's fault, but it looked so good I
just 
couldn't drop it.)


One note:  The nail in the air was a mistake.  But after waiting 5 days just to
get to
this point I worked around it.  Actually, I learned to love it.