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

TOOLS USED: 
    HeightField Lab

RENDER TIME: 
    about 1 hour

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 166MMX

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Flower growing  at the edge  of a precipice in the middle of desert. 
Beautiness in  danger. In the middle  of a desert  nature let thrive
a plant at a place where a human  being would never build something.
But though its secluded and insecure  position the flower is not let
down by nature but three bees are taking care of it.

You look from above, so that you  see down the precipice and you can
recognize a river passing along the valley.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

- Flower:
The Blooms are made  with loops and consists of cylinders. The leafs
are intersection between spheres. The stalk is also done with loops.

- Bees:
The  body  consists of  cylinders and  spheres which are  scaled and
textured. The wings are prismas.

- Landscape:
First I wanted  to created the  precipice with  the HeightField Lab. 
But because I have not used this tool ever before, I found it easier 
to use POV  itself to create the height field  image. And so I wrote 
the POV file  "hfschl7.pov"  to create  it.  (I did not  include the 
hfschl7.tga  in my zip-file  but you get  it by  rendering  the .pov 
file.) 
For the soul in the foreground where the fower is standing on I used 
the HFLab, it is a simple gforge.