TITLE: Vedic Dream
NAME: Maneesh Yadav
COUNTRY: Canada
EMAIL: yadavm@scripps.edu
WEBPAGE: www.eyetap.org/~maneesh
TOPIC: Worship
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: vd.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    blender

TOOLS USED: 
    blender 2.1, gimp 1.21

RENDER TIME: 
    2min

HARDWARE USED: 
    PIII 600 256MB ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

It's 10 minutes before Mar. 1st so this is going to come out
sounding like a it was typed by someone in a delirium who
has lost his dictionary...please forigve me.

<in case I haven't drawn in very clearly, its' supposed
to be a 'vishunuvian' avatar, with an agni aspect>

I've recently found vedic mythology rather fascinating.
It is very biological in nature...one can look back and
see the hybridization, mutation of mythological beings 
and stories which are themselves composites of real stories.
We can further hybridize these beings to create new and
beutiful forms.

If gods could do research, they migh spend time creating
universes...all kinds of types.  Some of them are mistakes
and die, others are bred only to be killed later. Gods may 
play with universes just as modern biologists tinker with 
cells; producing amazing results by working with an unbeliveably
complex machine, yet only doing so to climb a step higher
in the steep mountain which is understanding the machine.

Is the process of experimentation and meditating on the 
results and gaining understanding not worship?
Do we worhsip cells? Do gods worship universes?

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

I used blender for just about everything (including modelling
the enitre body with an smesh)...I wish I could animate it,
but no matter what I try, the arms kept bending like straws
when I used IKAs, so I manually modelled the position of the 
body.  Gimp was used to make the flower texture.  The 
wings were particle system (it surprisingly didn't take me 
long to do them)...

Sigh, when I was working on it, I thought this'd finally 
be the picture that would turn out right...it really feels
like it's missing something big, but I couldn't
figure it out in time.

But I think I was actaully able to put some artistic 
quality in this picture (as compared to what I've done
so far)...

Thanks to Ton et al. for making such a great piece
of software, and IRTC for the competition.

