EMAIL:georgejenner@belgacom.net
NAME:George Jenner
TOPIC:Dreaming
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE:Alpha Beta Sunflower!
COUNTRY:Belgium
WEBPAGE:http://users.belgacom.net/fcp
RENDERER USED:Povray 3.5
TOOLS USED:3D Canvas, Satori PhotoXL, OpenOffice Calc
RENDER TIME: About 30 seconds
HARDWARE USED:Laptop 600MHz Celeron
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Something that came to me in a waking moment.  Observing affects the observed.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

This is the first scene I've managed to finish in this medium, so be merciless with me.

Modelling was all done in 3D Canvas (except the head).  The clouds are fractal terrains 
mapped to spheres and squashed.  That and the flower are done with my own 
plugins.  Spent 3 weeks on the metro and bus writing algorithm to do the electrodes
as lightning, but haven't debugged in time.

I also wasted time (should I say spent a lot of time learning about...) getting the light
unbad.  The petals are rectangles with transparent textures which show edge artefacts if
the lights are in the wrong place.

The cloud texture comes from OpenOffice.  If you tell the spreadsheet to 
save as HTML, the charts and graphics are saved as .jpgs.

Didn't finish my head so I've used a freebie downloaded from 3DCafe.com.

Zip contains .pov output from 3D Canvas.