Artwork created in 2000

• Renderer: POV-Ray
• In June 2000, I was commissioned a book cover by Claude Genot, an INRA scientist working on meat technology. The book was about meat conservation by deep-freezing. I worked on three projects and Mrs Genot quickly chose the one with the ice cubes.
• The cow is from DAZ, but since the cover had to feature other species of farm animals that I did not have as 3D models, I used royalty-free Corel photographs on height-fields instead, for the chicken, the sheep and the pig.
• This version also has spaces for the title, the author's name and the collection's name.
• The ice cubes are made of perturbed isosurfaces. I actually did a more realistic cube, but it took forever to render so I settled with simplified ones. The air bubbles are just a bunch of elongated spheres randomly distributed in a box.
• Photon-mapping was used to obtain the glow effect below the ice.