EMAIL:kralovic@dcs.fmph.uniba.sk
NAME:Rastislav Kralovic
TOPIC:Fortress
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: The Cell
COUNTRY: Slovakia
WEBPAGE: http://www.dcs.fmph.uniba.sk/~kralovic
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1g + a custom patch from Dushan Bezak
TOOLS USED: text editor, Xview to convert the image into jpeg format,
            gimp for textures.
RENDER TIME: 41501s (cca 11h 30min) , cca 169MB memory peak
HARDWARE USED: PII 500 MHz 128 MB RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
The cells in my body are tiny fortresses fighting against evil flu viruses.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
It is a test image for Dushan's POV-Ray patch which allows for automatical
placement of objects. The cell tops are made of spheres placed on (invisible)
hexagons and lifted according to onion texture. Similarly, the thorns on the
lighters are layouted on the surface of a blob model. The eye lashes, cell
walls, virus teeth, hairs, and the intracellular thingies are also placed 
using the patch. Other models are only a couple of blobs and csgs.

The textures used were free on the net, I made some corrections to them in
gimp. The eye texture is due Toni Bratincevic.

The lighting is bad, but I ran out of time (the flu viruses got me). The image 
was ment to look quite different.