TITLE: microsak
NAME: Andre Kaempfer
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: schm_hen@studm.hrz.uni-siegen.de
TOPIC: Math & Science
COPYRIGHT: I submit to the standard raytracing competition copyright
JPGFILE: microsak.jpg
ZIPFILE: microsak.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    PoV-Ray 3.0

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray 2.5, FractInt 18.2

RENDER TIME: 
    eta. 2 hrs,40 min

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium-133 with 32 Megs

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    Microscope with Mandelbrot Fractal
Description of how this scene was created :
        - There is nothing special to say, I used the modeller Moray 2.5
          to create the whole scene (That's much easier than typing 
          all these statements and parameters word-by-word.)
          But nevertheless, that's quite a lot of work for a beginner
          like me. I took the image (The Microscope, not the Fractal)
          from a book-cover, and therefore had a good impression of what
          the whole thing should look like. I didn't calculate any 
          coordinate or vector in the whole scene. I just scaled and trans-
          lated in such manner, so that it would fit together (or at least
          seem to fit...). I took the Mandelbrot-fractal from FractInt 18.2 
          in order to create a small heightfield. Scaling was not as
          easy as described, because small changes of the "water_level"
          -parameters tended to cut off too much of my heightfield.
          Finally I had to fix the Mandelbrot image-map (also done with
          FractInt) to a sheet of paper (done by using a bezier-patch),
          but that took quite some time (and patience, I can tell you...).
          The damn thing was cut off at the edges and some kind of rotated.
          Translating and scaling helped a bit, but it wouldn't be mapped
          completely onto the patch yet. Then I changed the image itself,
          scaling down and centering the Fractal. Now that helped...
          the scene was finally complete.
          You see, the whole thing isn't perfect at all, but then again,
          I'm just a beginner. I have nothing to "teach" other amateurs,
          except that using a modeller like Moray is a real benefit for
          all who like using PoV-Ray. Thanks for this great program, and 
          also thanks to you, for creating PoV-Ray...