EMAIL: GEORDI@NETZSERVICE.DE
NAME: CHRISTIAN SCHULZ
TOPIC: SCIENCE FICTION
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: POVRAY 3.0 (MAINLY DOS)
TOOLS USED: MICROGRAFX PICTURE PUBLISHER 5.0, 3DS3
RENDER TIME: 9 HOURS 15 MIN.
HARDWARE USED: P5-100 WITH 32 MB RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
THIS IS A QUITE NEGATIVE FICTION FOR HUMANITY -
EVERYTHING ARTIFICIAL HAS BEEN DESTROYED - PERHAPS BY NUCLEAR WEAPONS...
BUT LOOK AT THE FLOWER IN THE FRONT OF THE PICTURE: IT HAS
SURVIVED ALL OF THIS.
THIS IS INSPIRED BY A SCIENCE FICTION STORY THAT I ONCE READ,
BUT I CAN'T SEEM TO REMEMBER WHO WROTE IT OR WHAT IT'S TITLE WAS.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
I STARTED WITH THE DESERT (MADE OF HEIGHT_FIELDS AND A PLANE),
THEN WROTE SOME PROCEDURES FOR THE BUILDINGS AND THE STONES IN THE SAND,
WHICH WOULD RANDOMLY POSITION AND ROTATE THE OBJECTS. NOW THE FLOWER
WOULD HAVE BEEN TOO DIFFICULT TO MODEL WITH POVRAY; SO I CREATED IT WITH
3DS (BUT ONLY ONE LEAF EACH), CONVERTED IT TO A POVRAY MESH AND
ROTATED/SCALED THE OBJECTS TO WHAT YOU CAN SEE NOW.
I DIDN'T INCLUDE THE HEIGHT_FIELDS FOR THE BACKGROUND MOUNTAINS
IN THE ZIP FILE - IT GOT TOO BIG WITH THEM. I CREATED THEM WITH POVRAY
USING A "WRINKLES" PATTERN.