TITLE: LC-34
NAME: Brook Peterson
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: boork@gostnet.com
WEBPAGE: www.boork.org
TOPIC: Ruins
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: lc34.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    povray3.0 beta

TOOLS USED: 
    pico (to create the source .pov file) TIFFany2 (for file-type
conversion)

RENDER TIME: 
    25 min, 04 seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    P233 with 128 meg ram, running NeXT

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Launch Complex 34 was the site of - among other things - the Apollo
program, and what I consider the real 'beginning' of the mission that
eventually put man on the moon.  Not much is left of the original tower
except a monolithic concrete structure lying 'abandonned in place' in
the middle of a conrete field.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


I did it in my spair time at work on a NeXT box. I used pico to edit the
text file and converted the output tga using TIFFany.  I tried to correct
the gamma on it, because while it looked great on the NeXT box I found to
my dismay it was almost totally black on a windows box, but I don't think
I had that much success at it - I was trying to fix it at the last minute
and near pulling my hair out about it...

Ultimately it is a simple image of fairly common shapes, and is not
terribly accurate (I was working form 4 photos).  The best part is that
the 'moon' isn't really all _that_ far away heh heh.