TITLE: Violet Sunset
NAME: Sergei Shuvalkin
COUNTRY: Russia
EMAIL: shuvalkin@excite.com
WEBPAGE: none
TOPIC: First Encounter
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: violet.jpg
ZIPFILE: violet.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1a

TOOLS USED: 
    sPatch 1.5, SpilinEditor 1.2, Paint Shop Pro 4.12

RENDER TIME: 
    4h 33m 18s

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium-233, 32M

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


An Astronaut is being eaten by an Insect-aboriginal.
Sometimes first encounters can be rather unsuccessful!


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


My initial idea was to depict a frendly meeting of human and alien,
but after a few days of hard work I had realized that I should have
no time to create an acceptable model of a man... And I have fed
him to the alien.

All objects in the scene are CSG except Insect's head/body, which are
made of bicubic patches. Trees and feelers are build from SOR elements
using the #macro feature. Insect's eyes are also macros.

Text objects - cour.ttf.

The scene (tree macros) is very memory consuming (requires about 64M),
however it is rendered rather quickly.
Time for parse: 40-50 min.

