TITLE: Bacwar
NAME: Leroy Whetstone
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: lrwii@joplin.com
TOPIC: WARFARE
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: Bacwar.jpg
ZIPFILE: Bacwar.zip

RENDERER USED:
Povray 3.1g Windows

TOOLS USED:
jpeg covertion: Lview
bacteria file : Qbasic

RENDER TIME:
 Time For Parse:    0 hours  0 minutes   2.0 seconds (2 seconds)
 Time For Trace:   12 hours  1 minutes  43.0 seconds (43303 seconds)
     Total Time:   12 hours  1 minutes  45.0 seconds (43305 seconds)


HARDWARE USED:
Amd K6 500Mhz 128 Meg RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:  Looking in my microscope and what do I see? 
                   Two different bacteria seemingly preparing for battle.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

  This is my ninth entry. First, a few people wanted to change the subject for this round. 
 I am for leaving it as is for  a number of reasons. But they all boil down to trust. 
 I trust that the fine people that enter this contest will enter apropiate pictures.
  The idea for this picture came about because when I first heard of the topic I wanted to
 something diffrent and abstract. Then the World Trade Center happen and I just wanted to do
 something on topic but not an abstract of man vrs man. While still numb I just played
 with POVray textures. When I happen to make one that look like a view from my microscope.
     
  

SCENE :
 size: 600 * 600
 contains 1798 frame level objects; 0 infinite.
 Smpls/Pxl: 5.09
 Antialiasing..(Method 2, Threshold 0.400, Depth 2, Jitter 0.25)

Objects:

 Lights:  there is 4 one White in the middle of the microscope 
         the others are scatter between the microscope and the slide. These are  different colors.

 background (slide):two boxes intersected, with each box have a different texture  
 
 mircoscope: a box intersected with an inversed cylinder brought up close to the camera 
 
 Red and Blue Bacteria:  These are made of 2 spheres and a cylinder merged with an high ior
                        Inside of that I place a smaller cylinder with a red or blue and 
                        clear color_maps.
                         To place and size them I made a Qbasic program that randomly select
                        the size and a start location around a circle then move the bacteria 
                        and rotate it as it moves toward the center until it hits another bacteria.   
                        Then it would store all infromation in a file that POV can read.
                        The program can be set to select a start point between any two angles.
                        I played around with several different angles and sizes until I got the
                        two that I wanted. I had to do a little resizing to the location to get things
                        to turn out right. The files are part of the zip.
                        
 
 star mold: After I put the bacteria down I went back and place the mold. Each mold is made
           up of a single cylinder with pigment scaled ,rotated using POV's 'rand'. To place them
           I picked a spot then let POV choose randomly how many cylinder to place.  
 
 brown eggs: are sphere's texture the same. I place a few by hand(the Big ones) then let POV place
            200 of veried sizes. 
 
Zip-File:
         main file - bacwar.pov 
         ini file  - bacwar.ini
         location file1 - bact4.fil  
         location file2 - bact5.fil  

Epilogue: With every thing in place before Antialiasing the render time was around 2 hours.
         With Antialiasing the time went to 12 hours. This is the longest render I've ever done.
         It was worth it.  

 

Feel free to E-mail me with any comments and or suggests.