TITLE: Sons and Daughters NAME: Martin Presler-Marshall COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: jhreingold@yahoo.com WEBPAGE: N/A TOPIC: Warfare COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: sad.jpg ZIPFILE: sad.zip RENDERER USED: POVRay 3.5 Beta 7 TOOLS USED: ULead PhotoImpact (to add copyright text), Gilles Tran's grass include file RENDER TIME: (didn't record) HARDWARE USED: Pentium II/300 MHz IMAGE DESCRIPTION: In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, I heard many people shouting for war. While I was horrified by the attacks on the US, I was concerned that an unthinking response was going only to produce more generations of people for whom the US is the Great Satan. When I then saw the IRTC topic, I knew that I'd hit on an image idea. This picture is intended to give the viewer one simple message: remember that when calling for war, it's someone's son or daughter who will be paying for that call. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The tomb object is a fairly simple use of CSG. I built three possible top motifs (for Christian, Jewish, and Muslim individuals), and then used random number generators to choose the top motif for each tomb. I also used random number generators to pick the deceased person's unit and years of life. I chose the names off a list - starting with a list of authors of American poetry of the 20th century, and then adding some more to broaden the ethnic mix. One of the last things I added was the tree's shadow near the front. I would have liked to change the camera angle and add some actual trees, but my POVRay skills aren't up to that yet.