TITLE: Ultimate Sin NAME: Bob Franke COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: bobfranke@halcyon.com WEBPAGE: http://www.halcyon.com/wordsltd/pov/pov.htm TOPIC: History COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: abomb.jpg ZIPFILE: abomb.zip RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1 TOOLS USED: POV-Ray editor, Poser2 for Adam and Eve,Keith Rule's Wcvt2pov, Lview Pro for jpeg conversion and copyright RENDER TIME: 5 hours 23 minutes HARDWARE USED: Pentium II 350 w/ 96 Mb RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: My biblical knowledge is very rusty, so I may not get this quite right. The act of Original Sin was eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge. This resulted in mankind having the knowledge of right and wrong and the ability to choose one or the other. In my image the Ultimate Sin was exploding the first atomic bomb and obtaining the ability to destroy all life on the planet. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The fireball, column and ground dust were done with media. Adam, Eve were created with Poser2 and converted to include files with Keith Rule's Wcvt2pov. Because backlit mesh objects do not work very well with POV, I traced Adam & Eve separately and included them as an image_map. The landscape, behind the bomb is accurate. Shown, just east of the bomb site, is the Oscura Mountains in New Mexico. I downloaded the 1:250,000-Scale Digital Elevation Model (DEM) for the Trinity bomb site from URL http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/doc/edchome/ndcdb/ndcdb.html. I then emailed a couple of web sites to get the latitude & longitude of ground zero. I found several programs to convert the DEM files to TGA, but only John Beale's would create 16-bit data. All the others made 8-bit height fields. I didn't like how John's program worked so I wrote my own, wDem2Tga.exe. WDem2tga has the option to create 8 or 16 bit files and the ability to scale the data with the lowest elevation at zero. This makes the image easier to use when scaling on the y axis. Also, mine is the only Windows DEM conversion program that I know of and includes an image viewer. You may download a copy of wDem2Tga from the Utility page on my POV web site. Well, that's about it. I hope you like the image.