EMAIL             : 101741.541@compuserve.com
NAME              : Fabien MOSEN
TOPIC             : MAGIC
COPYRIGHT         : I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT
TITLE             : SOAP BUBBLES FACTORY
COUNTRY           : BELGIUM
WEBPAGE           : ???
RENDERER USED     : POV 3.02
TOOLS USED        : "terrain maker"
RENDER TIME       : 15:23
HARDWARE USED     : 486 DX2 66
IMAGE DESCRIPTION : 
        Well, magic is sometimes in the simplest things. Soap bubbles are
simple and marvellous things, but how are they made ?  I think they come
from a soapy country where lies a soap sea, which washes everything around,
giving a bright white ambience all around.  What we see here is a close-up
of a "fract-a-bubble" bubbling device, surrounded by it's natural environnement;
nobody really knows how it works, but it does its job very well, so nobody
minds.  

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED :
        All was done by hand, the height_field being created with "terrain 
maker".  The golden vault volume is inspired by the CNIT building in Paris,
an almost unique example of tri-directionnal vault (quite difficult to explain,
there is an image of it in the .zip file).  The white ambience is given
by a little over-exposed touch in every light and texture.  The interior
of the bubbling device is made with a combination of julia fractals, set up
with trial-and-error(s) method.  That's all, folks !