Quick-n-Dirty. A bubble-bath inspiration, instead of my 1st idea, would of taken too long.

A bubble-bath inspiration on Sunday Oct 10th, sketched out on paper. Thumbnail. And some psyduo code. Over the course of the next few days, tossed the pieces together and played with different options.

Not enough time before deadline to really clean up the image, but a good start to some concepts. Used various elements which I have 'picked up' from various POV-ray annoucements and submissions.

I would be interested in hearing comments and suggestions on how to 'brighten', 'smooth out', or speed up rendering of this image.

1. First sketched out thumbnail.
2. Wrote up a page of mock coding, for generating the bending pipeline.
3. Typed in code for Perl, generated several example 100 to 190 segment tubes.
4. Added 'Sea Water' background.
5. Experimented with Lawnmaker to find best combination of parameters.
   (Great package! Thanks Uwe Gleiß !)
6. Played with some options for media and lighting.
7. Reviewed requirements for the competition, to make sure I follow requirements.
8. Submitted what ever I had by the deadline. :)

   I wish the contest went longer, so I had some more time in playing with lighting and colors. Along with glass effects and photon mapping.

   I'll continue to refine this image as I have time in the future. Any comments or suggestions on cutting down the 50 hour render time, would be appreicated!

Gateway E-4100, 3.0 GHz, Running Windows XP

POV-Ray 3.6.1 for Windows

POV-ray Packages:
gen_pipe.pl
             (written by FruG FoREST for this image)
Lawnmaker V1.2 30.12.03
             (written 2003 by Uwe Gleiß, cogra@cogra-flg.homelinux.net)
signature.pov
             (signature image with alpha channel, by: Christoph Hormann)
ZoomIn.Inc
             (Zoom scene, by John Haggerty http://www.slimeland.com/ )

(If I had two more weeks, I would have PVMPOV-Ray running on 60+ , 3 GHz, NetBSD machines. Didn't quite make it in time for this contest. )

povcomp2004_id_qd.zip (2 kb)

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