TITLE: A sense of arthropods.
NAME: Neal Delfeld
COUNTRY: USA (but I do not support the death penalty, despite Mr. Bush'scontention)

EMAIL: delfeld@mailcity.com
TOPIC: Insects and Spiders
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: arthropd.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    MegaPov 0.5a

TOOLS USED: 
    Paint Shop Pro 4

RENDER TIME: 
    20 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 133


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    and DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED

1) The major ideas for this image originate from Paul Klee, "Notebooks 2". 
   a) The overall goal is essential, not visual, imitation.  
   b) Artistic forms are as alive as the object rendered.  More accurately:
forms are mysterious, as are insects, and mysteries must be investigated or
else what is produced still has irrational tension.
   c) This is a visual medium, so the concepts found in the scorpion must
rationally meet visual concepts.  There is no other requirements, at this
point.

2) Forms of support: 
   a) Exoskeleton, chitin (passive)
   b) Muscles, conscious thought (active)
   c) Tendons (connect active to passive, is itself passive)

3) All appendages on an insect are derived from the same genetic code segment
(claws are genetically similar to legs, antennae, swimmerets, etc.).
   a) One shape is used throughout the scene through a number of transformations
(with one variation: an added sphere).

4) Any existence takes in the world and extends itself into the world.  Thus,
existence itself is its own 'a priori' necessity.
   a) This is represented visually by the scorpion being its own center of
gravity (this may need justification against the bottom of the image being
"down").
   b) Gravity visually is a center; a circle's radii represent lines of gravity.
 
   c) All passive supports should "tend toward" the scorpion's center.
   d) Broad teardrop shapes in the carapace emphasize stability and centering by
pointing back to the center.

5) Physical sense has a range (e.g., you cannot hear a car thirty miles away).
   a) The value of the color represents sensation's range, with constant value
as outside that range.