TITLE: Hello, World!
NAME: Jeremy Gregoire
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: Jeremy.D.Gregoire@westgroup.com
WEBPAGE: nope. I had one for awhile, but never maintained it.
TOPIC: First Encounter
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: nest.jpg
ZIPFILE: nest.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray for Windows 3.02

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray for Windows (Shareware), Windows Paint to add title and name

RENDER TIME: 
    About nine minutes @ 800x600

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium II-300

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

        A little bird cracks out of his shell, and begins his first encounter
with 
the real world.        


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

I used the shareware version of Moray to place some rough models (i.e. torus for
the nest)
in the scene to give me an idea of how the final objects would look in
comparison to 
each other, then edited the exported file to put in the final objects.

The nest is a while loop that randomly places a "twig" down changing the 
size and rotation of the "twig" as it goes.  A similar loop was used to put 
the "hay" down inside the nest.  I threw in some fog to obscure the incomplete
backdrop.

The pine needle leaves are another while loop, where the needles are rotated
around 
a cone, and scaled to get smaller as they move up the leaf.

Finally, I named the image "Hello, World!" since not only does the bird greet
the world
for the first time, but this is my first submission to the IRTC.  Enjoy!

