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Entry: 0009
WWW: http://www.angelfire.com/droid/mongke
Title: The Chrysalis fields. Harvest time....
Author: Sean (mongke)
Having an interset in insects the idea of creating a cocoon from a fractal seemed like a good idea.
Soe of the first fractals i ever saw were kalidascopes and halls of mirrors. so the idea to build a mirrored room to hold the fractal seemed like a good way to show the effects of fracted light. I didnt use it for this image but i did play with settings to the caera angle on a fisheye lens 1000`s of degrees makes fractal images. 
Fractals reind me of repeation and the egg room in aleins or the matrix body bank was also an inspiration.
tricks?  keep it simple.
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//THE CHRYSALIS FIELDS... Harvest Time
// The fractal ray trace comp.2004
//Sean T J ,(mongke)   Perth Aus.   terraform@upnaway.com
//---------A fractal, set in a fracturred world......
// I like the idea of  fractals as organic objects.And the fracturing of images with multiple mirrors.(kalidascopic effects)
//I liked the look of the egg fields in alein and the idea came with the cocoon fractal. and previous playing with caera angels.
// because this is a 360 spherical veiw it works in a quick time veiwer 
// the image is some what similar to hair at high zoom.
//start program
#version 3.5;  //see camera for note on v3.1 compat.
global_settings {
  assumed_gamma 3 max_trace_level 12} 
// ----------------------------------------CAMERA ,LIGHTS
camera {   spherical               //change to fisheye for v3.1 compatabillity.
  location  <1.0, 1, -24.0>
  direction 1.5*z
right     x*image_width/image_height
  look_at   <0.0, 0.0,  0.0> angle 360
}
sky_sphere {
  pigment {
    gradient x
    color_map {
      [0.0 rgb <0.2,0.1,0.0>]
      [0.7 rgb <0.1,0.40,0.7>]
    }
  }
}
light_source {
  <-4, -3,-10 >            // light's position (translated below)
  color rgb <1,.0,.70> } // light's color  
  
  light_source {
  <0, -3,-10 >            // light's position (translated below)
  color rgb <2, 1.4, 1>}  // light's color
// ----------------FLOOR WALL PLANES ETC
plane {
  y, -15    rotate<0,45,0>
  pigment { color rgbf <0.0,0.1,0,1>}finish{reflection 1} 
}
  plane {
  x,+22 
  pigment { color rgb <0.,0.0,0.1>}finish{reflection 1} 
}  
 plane {
  x,-22   
  pigment { color rgbf<0.,0.0,0.1>}finish{reflection 1} 
}  
 plane {
  z,+55 rotate <0,22.5,0>   
  pigment { color rgb <0.0,0.0,0.1>}finish{reflection 1} 
} 
plane {
  y, 22    rotate<0,0,0>
  pigment { color rgb <0.0,0.1,0.1>}finish{reflection 1} 
}
plane {
  z,+-55 rotate <0,0.0,0>   
  pigment { color rgb <0.0,0.0,0.1>}finish{reflection 1} 
}
 //----------------------- create a julia fractal (THE COCCOON
julia_fractal {
  <-0.23,0.2,-0.5,-0.0>
  quaternion 
  cube   
      
  max_iteration 7
  precision 30
   
scale<9,2.9,2.4>*2. rotate <0,0,270>translate <0,4.8,10>
 pigment{ rgbf<0.5,.4,.0,.2>  }interior{ior 1.6}
 finish{roughness 01 metallic .1 reflection .012 phong 1 phong_size 100} }
    //end all..