TITLE: The iron sleeps tonight...
NAME: Fabien MOSEN
COUNTRY: BELGIUM
EMAIL: 101741.541@compuserve.com
WEBPAGE: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/MichelMosen/story.htm

TOPIC: NIGHT
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT
JPGFILE: fmnight.jpg
ZIPFILE: fmnight.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV 3.02 MS-DOS

TOOLS USED: 
    sPatch, Lparser, Corel 3, Galaxy.inc, terrain maker.

RENDER TIME: 
    24 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    AMD K6/233 (250 soon ) - 64 Mb


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Late night, full moon is glowing, a quiet town begins to sleep...
But, in a dark area, an abstract sculpture is brought to life
by an unattended light.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


STONE TEXTURE : Very simple layered Blue-Gray-White texture, based
on photographs of so-called "blue stone".  The stone for the cobbles
is a little grayer.

THE HOUSES : I created a kind of "lego", made of lintels, windows,
doorsteps,...
I made several models of each element, then I picked up amongst those
elements to assemble each house front.  Aside of the stones, I can also
define a lightning color for each of the nine "rooms", and switch them on
and off.  The tiles are made with a quilted normal.  The bricked side
of the center house is made with a height field, itself a Povray layered
texture of Bozo and Bricks.

THE COBBLESTONES : consist of a repeated grid of 10x10 little stones, each
being randomly lift to give some irregularity to the pattern.

THE SCULPTURE AND ITS SHADOW : were made by first drawing the "monster"
then scanning and mapping it onto a plane;  "watching" this plane with
a camera placed at the same location than where the spotlight (the one that
makes the big shadow) would be.  Next, I placed some various objects, randomly,
adjusting them by trial-error, until they filled the 2D canvas I sketched.
The red eyes are little filtering elements in the sculpture. Some objects
("hand" and "wings") were made with sPatch.

MISCELLANEOUS :
the nude trees comes from Lparser
the coloured sky uses Chris Colefax's wonderful "galaxy.inc"
the moon is a mapped sphere with a halo around
the streetlamps are nothing special (CSG)
the water on the ground is a height field with a watery texture