TITLE: Campsite NAME: Robert Lowell COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: lowellr@globaldialog.com WEBPAGE: None TOPIC: Elements COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: e5.jpg RENDERER USED: Povray 3 beta 5 TOOLS USED: None RENDER TIME: 10 hrs + HARDWARE USED: Pentium-166 64MEG IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Going with the earth, water, wind, and fire defination of the elements. I ended up with the obvious earth and fire playing the part of earth and fire. The wind ( small ) can be seen fanning the flames and pushing the smoke away from the camera. A bucket ( despiration move ) filled with water is waiting in case the fire gets out of hand. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I actually didn't think I would have anything to submit this time. I spent way to much time playing with the macro thing. The fern bushes up front is a macro which accept another macro( that also has another macro parameter ) as a parameter. The inside macro builds a fern triangle mesh from the SPLEENWORT fern formula devolped for the Physics. The middle macro gives the fern piece a random rotation in X,Y, and Z, The outside macro place it in the group. The campfire stones are a CSG placed with the Make_Many macro. The fire itself was fun. It ended up being the Halo/media unioned with a RedOrange lightsource. The union was set so that the light source was below the level of the stones to try to get some of the shadows right. The Pine forest is built and placed by more macros The tent is a CSG with a semitransparent texture. Inside is a sphere/Yellowishlight source union to look like a coleman lantern ( more fire ) The remainder of the light is provided by the Moon. This is sphere/Silverlight source The normal and transparency of the sphere was adjusted for the desired light level. The background is a skysphere with a starfield texture. This was rendered with the final radiosity settings. On light levels, This is supposed to be a dark picture. The near pinetrees should be almost black with silver reflected from the moon. Shadows of the campfire stones should barely visible around the fire