TITLE: Atlantis
NAME: Christoph Gerber
COUNTRY: Switzerland
EMAIL: christoph.gerber@roche.com
TOPIC: Unbelievable
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: atlantis.jpg
ZIPFILE: atlantis.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray Superpatch

TOOLS USED: 
    Fractint, GForge, Genesis Toolkit, Poser, LView (for
jpg-conversion)

RENDER TIME: 
    4h 6' 20''

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium II 450 with 132 MB RAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Just another version of Atlantis and like most others it is very unlikely or ...
unbelievable.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The main work was to create the height field. This was done by combineing a
Fractint julia fractal with a GForge heightfield using GForge's RMAG command
and tweaking the whole thing using the TWIST command and the same GForge height
field as a control matrix. The whole thing was textured using slope dependent
textures. Plants, buildings and dragon statues were placed on the height field
using the Genesis Toolkit. The female figure was made with Poser and converted
to a POV-Ray mesh with uv-coordinates using Warmann's Poser OBJ to POV
converter. A Poser texture map was applied as pigment map for the figure's face
and skin, all other objects attached to the figure use plain POV-Ray
texturing.

Some objects made by other people have been used:
- The boat is a slightly modified version of Mick Hazelgrove's clinker boat
  (see section newsgroup povray.binaries.scene-files on the POV-Ray server)
- The female figure is Jesse L. Bond's "Slave Leia" figure
  (see www.poserforum.com)
- The dragon is from 3D Cafe (tm). No informtion about the author is given.

Figure, dragon and texture map are not included in the ZIP archive because the
corresponding files are huge (>12MB for the figure!)

