TITLE: Strawberry Juice
NAME: Paolo Brasolin
COUNTRY: Italy
EMAIL: pbrasolin@yahoo.it
WEBPAGE: http \\paolo.brasolin.free.fr
TOPIC: Epic Proportions
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: pbstrjui.jpg
ZIPFILE: pbstrjui.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    MegaPOV v1.0

TOOLS USED: 
    GIMP v1.2.5, PovChem 2.1.1, HamaPatch 2.9

RENDER TIME: 
    1h 32m 42s

HARDWARE USED: 
    PIV 3Ghz, RAM 512 Mb

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    Uh... A huge strawberry martini in space seen from a probe.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    The objects are quite simple. The
glass is a lathe, the ice is an isosurface, the liquid too, the Earth and the
Moon are just two spheres with two slightly bigger spheres filled with media
and the molecula is composed by spheres and cylinders (a PDB file converted
with PovChem). The HUD was done by putting all its elements (text, boxes, discs
and the molecula) in a <-1,0,-0.5>,<1,0,0.5> box and by rotating it to orient
it towards the camera, and then by translating and scaling it to fit the field
of view. The hardest part was modeling the strawberry: I divided the process in
three parts: I. I created the basic shape with a couple of blobs. II. I
perturbed the shape with some negative blobs: I used a while-trace loop to
place them on the surface along a spiral pattern around the y axis; I shoot
rays from <sin(n)*2,(3/60*n)-1,cos(n)*2> to <0-sin(n)*2,(3/60*n)-1,0-cos(n)*2>
where 3 is the range, 60 is the number of rays to shot and n is n=n+1 every
loop. I used it another time to carve holes for the seeds. III. I used it again
to place the seeds (I also rotated them by the point normal*36). Finally I
placed the leaves, created using HamaPatch. I used Galaxy include file
(http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/1434/) for the background. The
image maps were found at http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/
and at http://gw.marketingden.com/planets/moon.html. GIMP was used to convert
the final image to jpeg.

