TITLE: Escher's Binomial City NAME: Greg M. Johnson COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: gregj56590@aol.com WEBPAGE: http://members.xoom.com/gregjohn TOPIC: Stills COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: ruined.jpg ZIPFILE: ruined.zip RENDERER USED: Superpatch POV-Ray TOOLS USED: corel photopaint to convert to JPG RENDER TIME: About 4 hours HARDWARE USED: Aptiva 450 MHz Pentium II IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The alternative title for this image is "Entry ruined by a ski trip!" I thought I had a really neat idea about an imaginary, mathematical world where people of size varying orders of magnitude live peacefully together. I know that there is at least one big problem here, but I wondered what people thought of my idea, and I have to run off to a ski trip. Hope I haven't wasted your time, but I didn't have time to fix it. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The system is set up so that I could tell the computer how many orders of magnitude I wanted to have in my image, and it would calculate a recursive city. The people are blobs. The Houses are built out of heightfields using the new feature in Superpatch.