TITLE: Picnic at Giza
NAME: emkaah
EMAIL: emkaah@yahoo.com
TOPIC: desert
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: em_giza.jpg
ZIPFILE: em_giza.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.6

TOOLS USED: 


RENDER TIME: 
    2h 46m

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 4 2.66 Ghz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Deserted pyramids in the desert by a deserted civilisation, with a family
preparing for dessert.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The pyramids exists of individual stones (randomized superellipsoids and
isosurfaces), the sand is a produceral heightfield, the rubble is placed with
the trace function, the car is a mesh downloaded from the internet (adjusted to
open the hatch) and the family is a bunch of spheres and cones. And then I
tweaked it all (a lot) until I was satisfied, which I am now, sort of. 
I included the code (except the car), for the ones who are interested, but it is
very messy, so beware.

