EMAIL: uwezi@geocities.com
NAME:  Uwe Zimmermann
TOPIC: August 1999 stills: Landmarks
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Offshore Lighthouse "Roter Sand", northern Germany
COUNTRY: Germany and Sweden
WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/~uwezi
RENDERER USED: POVRay v3.1g for Windows
TOOLS USED:    Paintshop Pro (heightfield), photos, ruler
RENDER TIME:   9 minutes
HARDWARE USED: P-II 333 MHz, 128 MB
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The image shows the german offshore lighthouse "Roter Sand",
some nautical miles north of the city of Bremerhaven. It might have been the last
german landmark to be seen by many emigrants leaving Germany by ship for the New World.
It served as a major navigational aid in the german bay from 1885 until 1964. Now it is
preserved as a national monument.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The shape of the lighthouse was transferred from
photographs (some taken by me and some found on the net) and a sketch was drawn on paper. Then
a simple model using the rotational symmetry of the main body was programmed and modified using
POV-Ray until the final image resulted. The water was generated by manipulating a heightfield
created by POV-Ray with Paintshop Pro. The final heightfield is included as a PNG file called
"uzrotsnd.htf".
