TITLE: Eiffel Tower, New Year's Eve
NAME: Kyle Stamper
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: joekyle@geocities.com
TOPIC: Landmarks
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: eiffel20.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.1g

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray, Paint Shop Pro, Easy Fireworks, my brain

RENDER TIME: 
    17hrs

HARDWARE USED: 
    My !Brand New! AMD K6-2 400, 64mb ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Imagine yourself for a moment, on a crisp January evening in
Paris, seated on the public lawn before the most widely 
recognized landmark in the world, the Eiffel Tower. As you 
gaze upward, in awe of one of the great milestones of human 
engineering, the crowd around you begins to buzz with 
anticipation, and the countdown begins. 
3..2..1.. Happy New Year!!



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Yes, you caught me, I didn't actually build the entire
Eiffel tower by myself. The basic frame I found on the 'net,
then made it pretty and more realistic in Moray. To make the
fireworks, I used a program called EasyFireworks 
(http://www.CS.McGill.CA/~nburtn/) which generated all of 
the objects and output a .pov file according to my 
specifications. I then rendered the three different 
fireworks seperately. I made the fireworks brighter in Paint
Shop Pro and used them as imagemaps on discs. Rendering was 
a lot faster that way. I found some pictures of the Eiffel 
tower at night on the 'net and set up my lights accordingly. 
There are lights going all the way up the inside of the 
tower's frame, but they are hardly noticeable until the top. 
The countdown sign is an imagemap that I made by hand in 
PSP. There are spotlights shining on the sign obviously, and
there are some media filled cones that are supposed to look
like the actual spotlights, although I'm not sure if I 
succeeded with that. All texures I made myself and all
scene composition was done in Moray. Good luck to all of 
the contestants.