TITLE: Sunrise at Annapurna
NAME: Justin Smith
COUNTRY: US
EMAIL: t74bdg89@yahoo.com
TOPIC: Spectacular Landscapes
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: annapurn.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.5

RENDER TIME: 
    about 2 days, 15 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 3, 450 mhz and AMD K6-2, 500 mhz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

This is my first entry to the competition, and I know it doesn't look like the
real Annapurna at all. I began with the intention of creating "a mountain," and
when I was done, Annapurna just came to mind. In addition to being my first
entry, this is the first time I've tried to create a full scene, as opposed to
an individual object.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Since I have old processors, I had the P-3 (my brother's) rendering most of the
scene, and tested out specific single objects on my AMD when I wasn't using it
for other things. Although the final render listed is less than 3 days, my
brother's computer has been rendering with only small breaks for about 3 weeks
straight, until I finally got everything acceptable. The Pentium system ran the
complete scene. Both mountains are composed of simple isosurfaces (paraboloids
minus some granite noise), with a slope-based color pattern. The cloud layer is
just fog, and could be better. The clouds and sky are all one plane object.
There is also a jet plane in the sky, but it is fairly unrecognizable, and
looks like an artifact or something else erroneous.

I should say, I pretty much expect last place with this image, but that's not
the point. I'm hoping for helpful suggestions so I can do better in future
entries. I look forward to seeing what everyone else has accomplished.

