I started this back in February with the intent of it being the 
focus of an entry in the IRTC. Once I realized I wasn't going to 
make the deadline, I stopped work on it. Recently I had the urge 
to take another look at it.

The structure is made up of 792 besier patches and represents one 
half of a pod house as envisioned by James Gurney in his book 
"Dinotopia The World Beneath". It was modeled in Moray 2.5b and 
rendered with POVRAY 3.0. (If you are interested in seeing what 
the finished structure should look like, find a copy of the book 
and look at the illustration on page 62.)

I haven't decided how I am going to proceed with the project. I'm 
not happy with the overall proportions, and the problems I had with
DOS extender crashes while combining the individual sections, each
of which was created as a separate file to save modeling time, make
me want to try redoing it using meshes instead of besier patches.
The textures are currently rudimentary.

Ken Matassa


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