TITLE: Ruinas
NAME: Jaime Vives Piqueres.
COUNTRY: Valencia, Spain.
EMAIL: jaime@ctav.es
WEBPAGE: http://www.ctav.es/jaime/index.html
TOPIC: RUINS
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: ruinas.jpg
ZIPFILE: ruinas.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1g for Linux ((C) POV-Team)

TOOLS USED: 

- Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 (w95 kicked out from the HD definitely!).
- KDE 1.1 ((C) KDE Team), as X-Windows manager.
- Kwrite ((C) Jochen Wilhelmy), to write the POV scripts.
- The Gimp ((C) S.Kimball and P.Mattis), to convert PNG to JPG, and for 
  some HF painting/editing.
- Funk grooves from the early 70's.
- Coffee and... hmmmm... ...well, Ok, let it go... just coffee.

RENDER TIME: 

1h 12 min (600x600 with default aa and Radiosity_2Bounce).

HARDWARE USED: 

Development : Intel P-II, 450 Mhz, AOpen AX6BC m.b., 64MB RAM, Linux 2.2.
Final Trace : Intel P-III, 667 Mhz, Intel CC820 m.b., 128MB RAM, Linux 2.2.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


 The ruins of a tomb. Where? Hmmm... who knows? The tomb is no yet
discovered, and I would not reveal the actual location, of course...


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


 Nothing too ambitious this time. Only a few more experiments with
height_fields. There are only height_fields on the scene. ...well,
also some spheres! :)

 Started with my old (well, yes, not so old!) Intel P-II 450, and
finished with a new Intel P-III 667, runing Linux 2.2.5. Yes, I'm
guilty: I upgraded only to raytrace faster... I'm really an addict!
The new 667 it's a 40% faster for many scenes, and even a 50% for some
simple scenes. I translated the old 450 to another room, but I've some
cable and unused ethernet boards... anyone ported PVMPOV to 3.1g? ;)

 Tomb concept losely based on the tombs from Al-Hijr, in Arabia,
today known as Madaen-Saleh. I used some pics appeared on the
spanish magazine "MUY INTERESANTE" as reference. My excuses to
the architects here (at least one!:) for the bad and free
representation of the beduin art, but I was very lazy and out
of time this round to do an accurate modelling (build of the new
667, install Linux and restore backup, the spanish translation
of POV docs, learning UniMegaPOV, Python, GTK+/GDK, etc...).

 See you next round... Bye!

 Jaime Vives Piqueres
 Valencia, 19-Feb.,2000.