TITLE: THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE ARGONAUTS NAME: Marc Schimmler COUNTRY: Germany EMAIL: schimmler@ica.uni-stuttgart.de WEBPAGE: www.ica.uni-stuttgart.de/~marc/povray.html TOPIC: Imaginary Worlds COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: argonaut.jpg ZIPFILE: argonaut.zip RENDERER USED: x-povray for linux 3.02 TOOLS USED: gimp for the image_maps and height_field manipulation, xv for jpeg conversion, spatch for bezier patch modelling, hf-lab for the creation of height fields, Chris Colefax's galaxy.inc RENDER TIME: 51 min 8 sec (devwloping time lots) HARDWARE USED: Pentium 90 48 MB RAM linux IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The famous Argonauts under the leadership of Iason are on their last voyage with their famous ship ARGO towards mount Olympus. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The flying rock has been made with hf-lab and the resulting heightfield has been copied, manipulated and mirrored with gimp so that these two heightfield form the rock. The galley has been made with sPatch as well as the captain standing on deck. The shields are csg. The moon is a imagemap from a photo taken by a apollo mission. It is applied on a sphere which lies between the sky sphere and cloud sphere (leopard pattern). The fog is a ground fog. The glowing effect is a scaled sphere with halo (I like 3.02!). The plant on the rock is a small povray procedure which can be found on the zip file under tree.pov. I'm sorry for the short description and the quite dirty code but time was pressing again. :-) If you have further questions I would be glad to help you. Just e-mail me. I greet all those at news.povray.org and wish everyboy good luck for this competition.