TITLE: cbruins
NAME: Christophe BOUFFARTIGUE
COUNTRY: France
EMAIL: christophe.bouffartigue@libertysurf.fr
WEBPAGE: not yet.

TOPIC: Ruins
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: cbruins.jpg
ZIPFILE: cbruins.zip
RENDERER USED: 

        Megapov 0.2
        

TOOLS USED: 

        XV 3.00 (for jpg conversion).
        reorient.mcr by John VanSickle.
        

RENDER TIME: 

        ~ 9h00 (~ 2h00 on a Pentium@188MHz)
        

HARDWARE USED: 

        HP VISUALIZE B132L+ under HP-UX 10.00


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


How to visualize the effects of water erosion in real-time ????
In a few minutes, this castel will be totally in ruins...


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Isosurfaces !!!!  Almost evrything you see on this picture is an isosurface (or
CSG
of isosurfaces). Pretty simple, indeed, with a massive use of noise3d() at
different
frequencies. See the code in iso_utils.inc & plage8.pov.

The little stones are blobs with 2 components and the bucket is simple CSG.

A part of the water texture uses the Fresnel reflectivity model of Megapov.
The other part is filled with a very low-sampling media, that gives this
roughness.

Rendered with radiosity.