TITLE: Unbelievable nature
NAME: Toni Bratincevic
COUNTRY: Croatia
EMAIL: tbrat@mail.geocities.com
WEBPAGE: http://members.xoom.com/Intercepto
TOPIC: Unbelievable
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: tbunb.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POVRay 3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    POVRay 3.1, Moray 3.1, sPatch, PhotoShop

RENDER TIME: 
    4d

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 133 96 Mb


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

I'm writing this few hours from dead line. My computer just finished rendering
(YES!) after days of unbelievable computing. You'l probalby wont belive me, but
it is unbelievable 4'o clock in the night. I think I should go to get some
sleep so I will try to be unbelievable short with this text. You will probably
see that the basic unbelievable thing in the picture is tree which grow on
desert sand. In the begining, there was only tree and desert, but after some
time I decided to add something funny so I created alien and his ship. Do you
like his sun glasses? :)


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Height field is created in POVRay using average function on bumps and gradient
pattern. HF was rendered in 1000x1000 resolution with hf_gray_16 so that I get
HF with more levels. Height field is positioned and scaled in Moray. Ship is
also created in Moray. Model of the alien was created using sPatch, exported in
MDL format and positioned on the HF near the space ship. The most complex part
of the image is tree. I wrote my own algorythm for creating trees. It uses 14
while-do loops for generationof tree, and consist of my own 6-7 macros.
Algorythm for tree is not finished yet, but I will try to finish it this month,
and put him on my web.

Bye.

