TITLE: Spirit of St. Louis
NAME: Dave Hamilton
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: olm@sprynet.com
WEBPAGE: www.traces.org
TOPIC: History
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: spirit1.jpg
ZIPFILE: spirit1.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray v3.1/Windows 95

TOOLS USED: 
    sPatch, DeLuxe Paint, PhotoShop

RENDER TIME: 
    1 hour 10 minutes 04 seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    PC/Pentium 200mHz


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

The Spirit of St. Louis comes to a near perfect landing at Le Bourget
field in Paris after Charles Lindbergh's record transatlantic flight,
May, 1927. 


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The entire aircraft, with the exception of the prop is composed of
Bezier patch objects generated using Mike Clifton's sPatch. The basic
patch objects were exported to POV-Ray for CSG and rendering.

The Eiffel Tower is a Bezier patch "silhouette". The Paris skyline is an
image map. All other objects are POV primitives.

All image map graphics are my own original artwork created using
Electronic Arts DeLuxe Paint and Adobe PhotoShop.

Other than graphic format conversion from POV-Ray .tga output to
.jpg, there was no post-processing of the image.