TITLE: 20th Century Ruin
NAME: Johannes Ewers
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: Johannes.Ewers@t-online.de
WEBPAGE: not yet
TOPIC: ruins
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: 20thcen.jpg
ZIPFILE: 20thcen.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    povray 3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray 3.2, Photoshop 4 used for gamma correction and hightfields

RENDER TIME: 
    21 min

HARDWARE USED: 
    Celeron 433, 128 MB

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Every century leaves its ruins behind. The biggest ruins of the last century are
oil drilling platforms in the open sea. Unfortunately , you need a ship or
sailing boat to visit these ruins.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

All modeling was done with Moray 3.2. The tool was especially useful for
handling complex, hierarchical structured objects. Highly recommended!
The sea surface uses a hightfield as basis. The hightfield construction
(Photoshop) started  with a strip pattern. Several distortion filters (and a
lot of experiments) were used to create a wave like structure. It is still a
long way to realistic waves!
The lens flare effect was created with the include file of Nathan Kopp.