TITLE: Desert at night
NAME: Micha Riser
COUNTRY: Switzerland
EMAIL: mriser@datacomm.ch
WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/7992/
TOPIC: night
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: desert.jpg
ZIPFILE: desert.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    povray 3.0 for LINUX

TOOLS USED: 
    none

RENDER TIME: 
    3 hours 45 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 166MMX

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Desert. Night. Everybody thinks that there must be calm and silence. 
But is that really true? No! There - far away from every civilisation, 
neon lights and discos - the cacti have assembled around a camp fire, 
they are having their own party. Playing the guitar, singing, dancing, 
drinking - the cacti seem to have a lot of fun! 
Well, I suppose the cactus in the foreground had drunken something too 
much whisky (did he even empty all the four bottles by his own?), he 
seems not any more able to stand up.
I wish the cacti a good time, don't you?
DESCRIPTION:
Well, I took the Windows Notepad, wrote in some POVRay code, tried 
until the picture looked like I wanted it to do, tortured my Computer 
with lots of prickles (there are more than 22000 of them - my PC has
probably a prickle allergy now), rendered the final picture under 
LINUX and sent it to the IRTC.
I used one height-field picture to make the desert; that is the only 
external file I used. All the other source information is in the 
pov-file.