TITLE: Nuggets
NAME: Fabien MOSEN
COUNTRY: BELGIUM (french speaking)
EMAIL: fabien.mosen@skynet.be
WEBPAGE: http://users.skynet.be/bs936509/povfr/index.htm
TOPIC: WILDERNESS
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT,
JPGFILE: fmwild.jpg
ZIPFILE: fmwild.zip
RENDERER USED: 

    MEGA-Pov 0.5a
        

TOOLS USED: 

    Moray's texture editor
    HamaPatch (sPatch evolving clone)


RENDER TIME: 

    5 hours


HARDWARE USED: 

    AMD K6-233
    

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


 This small portion of landscape isn't extraordinary
wild-looking, but there's one element that proves
than no man has ever visited the place.  Otherwise,
given these elements, it would have been exploited,
and thus destroyed, since long.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


 Almost everything in this image uses one or another
MEGA-Pov features.  
 The gray stones are a ridged multifractal
(isosurface, function added to a plane), and so is the
water object (function subst. from plane).  The water
has variable reflection, and blinn highlights (not much
visible).  The stone's texture uses the "slope" pattern
to place the green areas.
 Big plants are intersecting spheres, with a radial pigment
and a random placement.
 Nuggets (inters. of planes) and blades (bicubic patches)
are placed with a combination of randomness, eval_pigment
control and trace() function.
 

