TITLE: No Man's Land
NAME: John Gardiner
COUNTRY: UK
EMAIL: john@thegardiners.co.uk
TOPIC: Desert
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: jwgnoman.jpg
ZIPFILE: jwgnoman.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    Thumbs Plus to convert image to jpg.

RENDER TIME: 
    35m 11s

HARDWARE USED: 
    2.66 GHz Pentium 256 MB Ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Inhospitable, beautiful, and dangerous. Humans have no dominion here.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The scorpion is mostly isosurfaces and blobs. I had no idea how I was going to
do it when I started, but because it had repeating shapes - like 8 very similar
legs, 5 very similar tail segments etc, I felt it had to be a good POV-Ray
subject. I studied lots of photos and then built it piece-by-piece, trying to
get each bit right before even thinking about the next bit. I was incredibly
pleased with how it came out - far better than I'd hoped. Colour was a bit of a
problem because the scorpion range appears to be pretty dull. In the end I
abandoned realism in favour of the picture. There's probably a bright red
scorpion somewhere in the world anyway.


