TITLE: village.jpg - a drowned village NAME: Jens Dengler COUNTRY: Germany EMAIL: jd@surveyor.in-berlin.de WEBPAGE: http://www.in-berlin.de/User/jd/ TOPIC: Ruins COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: village.jpg ZIPFILE: village.zip RENDERER USED: povray 3.1g TOOLS USED: GIMP (height map) treegen (trees) GIMP (tga - jpg) RENDER TIME: 4h HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133MHz 32MB Linux 2.2 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A flooded landscape with grey skies and dead trees. A drowned, imaginary village with a romanic church. Maybe the ruins of a near future. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: When trying to use the into the sources included PoV-Ray file "village.pov" one will notice, that there is something missing: the trees. I have included the very short hack of a random (naked) tree generator. I dunno, if there is already one around, I have never looked for it. I'd wanted to write it for my own. I thought it would be difficult, but it was somewhat simple when using some restrictions about the number of branches. The program can create very bushy and very stoopid looking trees when fiddling with the parameter of iterations and leafs. Also included is the landscape map "village.png" because the image and the objects are fine tuned to it. This height map was created with GIMP with the normal scripts, only some details like the down levelling of the border was done by hand. To generate a similar image like the one above it is necessary to create four trees. For this, "treegen.c" has to be compiled and ran 4 times, putting the output of "treegen" into 4 files called "tree1.pov", "tree2.pov"... One has to rename the objects within these files, that is Tree to Tree1, Tree2..., tree to tree1, tree2... and treefoot to treefoot1, treefoot2... If a tree is one of the more funny looking results of treegen, you might try running treegen again for this tree. Even the trees in the presented image are not the best possible, possibly. The treefiles will have a size mostly bigger than the allowed file size for the JPEG. If they are ready and prepared, the remaining job is to do a "povray +A0.3 +W800 +H600 +V -I village.pov" and make a big coffee break. Although I think the image looks nice, I'm sure that there will be better ones. I submit this picture only for the olympic idea... and because I'd lots of time, still.