TITLE: Arctic Meat The Chilling Encounter
NAME: H. E. Day
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: PovRayGuy@aol.com
WEBPAGE: HTTP //WWW.TELEPORT.COM/~milan/CYLYcon/index.html
TOPIC: Horror
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: ameat.jpg
ZIPFILE: ameat.zip
RENDERER USED: 

    Pov Ray 3.1G MINI PATCH


TOOLS USED: 

    GUM
    POVRAY EDITOR


RENDER TIME: 

    3 1/2 Days

CREATION TIME: 
    3 weeks


HARDWARE USED: 

    Pentium 200 Mhz 32MB RAM



IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


        Private Ben "Bubba" Zowinski was on guard duty.  He was sitting in a
hut, in the Arctic, freezing his posterior off watching reruns of Home
Improvement.  It looks so warm in there, he thought over and over.  The TV gave
a little jiggle. Bubba ignored it. The TV, being of an insolent attitude, shook
again.  Bubba scowled.  The TV was now close to rattling off the table. Bubba
switched it off.  Didn't help.  He got up, took note that the entire hut was
vibrating slightly, and moved towards the door.
        His head popped out of the door, then promptly shot back in. There was
just enough time to see the flaming streak of light slamming into the snow
outside the fence.  With a final bounce the jarring ceased.  Bubba spent
several minutes debating with himself if it was worth the lost and frozen body
parts to go out and investigate. Finally, decided, he picked up his gun and fur
coat, and opened the door.  His eyebrows promptly froze.  Rubbing at them
vigorously, he trudged toward the fence gate.  Whatever was out there was
steaming in billowing clouds.  He stood off to the side and examined the
object.  
        His first thought was - It looks like a beetle.  
        His second - A BIG beetle.
        The carapace started to shift, and Bubba was hit with a sudden longing
to be elsewhere.  Being fond of self survival, he acted on this impulse
immediately.  Five running steps later his head and body parted company.  His
body, without commands to the contrary, crumpled to the ground.  His head,
however, continued onward for another 5 feet.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

        The terrain is made of two parts, the foreground, which is a blob, and
the background which is a heightfield.  The building is a multilevel macro,
with separate textures for each floor. The fence was made in SPatch, and makes
use of UV Mapping.  The sky is a cylinder with a panoramic render of stsky.pov.
The alien pod is also a blob with a image_map. That's it, I guess.



The .zip file is lacking in several key images, and is provide to only let you
see how I made this image.
        

