TITLE: Tower of Babel
NAME: Matthew Corey Brown
EMAIL: talious@sprynet.com
WEBPAGE: http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/talious/gallery.htmJPGFILE: mcbbabel.jpg

TOPIC: Great Engineering Achievments
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: mcbbabel.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    povray 3.01 for windows personal compile

TOOLS USED: 
    hf-lab, PSP

RENDER TIME: 
    10 hours 10 minutes 6 seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium Pro 180


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

        Well when i saw the Topic i knew what i was gonna do, A space elevator.
Then I saw
the topic page itself and was crushed to find out it was actuall achievments
that was built
not merely just designed. So i figured if the towel of babel was ever truely
finished it
would be a space staircase. So i went and made it.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Moon: My standard moon object, with an interpulated bump map.. maybe one day
i'll 
really get rid of the crtors caused by the image map and make the crators a
pure
bump map. 

Mountians and "sand": just couple of mountains made with hf-lab.

Rock Sign: Made as a diffrence of hieghtfields made with PSP and distorted with
hf-lab

Tower of Babel: a union of muliple unions of two superellipsoid translated. If
you 
increase the difference of the step by 0.1 you'll see the bottom of the pieces
and see
that the tower is actually fairly hollow. It took longer then expected almost as
long as
a space elvator would have (shape only not the seprate textures)