TITLE: MathWorld
NAME: Sean O'Malley
EMAIL: ffrog@geocities.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/~ffrog
TOPIC: Imaginary Worlds
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: mathwrld.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray, Paint Brush Pro (BMP-JPG), 3DMATH.PAS (mine)

RENDER TIME: 
    0 35 44

HARDWARE USED: 
    Cyrix 300 Mhz / 48 megs RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


A world entirely composed of objects created by mathematical
equations.  Exciting, eh?


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Since this was about Imaginary Worlds, I wanted it to be
made using completely "imaginary" objects.  Every object
in this scene was written from scratch using a DOS program
I wrote in Turbo Pascal 6.0 for generating DXF files from
mathematical equations.  (Works pretty well, don't you
think?)  It can do polar curves, 3-D curves, or flat
planes.  There are NO height fields in this image!  And
there are NO Pov-Ray objects in this image!  The problem 
was, it took me so long to write the program itself I 
hardly had time for raytracing and modelling!  (And it shows.)  
Well, maybe it'll come in handy in the next competition? :)
No source code is provided because it is HUUUUUUGE.

