TITLE: Revival
NAME: Claude GUILLEMOT
COUNTRY: France
EMAIL: cguille@hol.fr
WEBPAGE: http://wwwperso.hol.fr/~cguillem
TOPIC: Nature
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: revival.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Pov-ray 3.0

TOOLS USED: 
    Pov-ray 3.0. Photoshop 2.0 for heightfields and image-maps

RENDER TIME: 
    14 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    PowerMac 7200/75


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Revival... Somewhere on the earth, somewhere in the future...
Near the ruins of a nuclear power-station, at the border of a desert,
the rebirth of the nature.
More than a realistic vision, the picture looks like an allegory of the
strenght
and beauty of Nature, facing the human inconscience...


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

All the components of the picture were written directly on POV3, without any
modeller.
The ruins in the background and the pylon were created two years ago for a
picture
of my series "archeology of the future". All the other elements were created
especially
for this topic.
I designed the black shapes of each differents leaves on Photoshop and used them
as heightfields in CSG operations with various primitives ( paraboloids, torus,
spheres combined and scaled to restitute the real profil).
For the creeper, on the beton wall, I used an union of two symetric heightfields
and placed
each leaf using a grid-map as guid mark.

Be indulgent for my jargon and dont forget, please, that all the participants to
the IRTC are not necessary fluently english writing... Thanks for your votes
and comments.