TITLE: we_melt
NAME: Jochen Diehl
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: j.diehl@firemail.de
WEBPAGE: http://enter.diehlsworld.de
TOPIC: Winter
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: we_melt.jpg
ZIPFILE: we_melt.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    povray 3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    no 3D-tools, but PhotoShop to create or alter some of the
heightfields/bumpmaps

RENDER TIME: 
    6 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium II 450 Mhz


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Look at it for a while, an it will tell you what happened...


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

On March, 21st I went to the northern polar circle and took a snapshot of this
scene, where some snowmen had built that beautiful palace in winter and didn't
think about the sun rising again after a half year. They had built it just some
kilometers too far in the south. I never saw one of them again... ;-)
It's fully created in Pov-Ray and it took me 1h for the concept, about 30h for
the details and about 3 days of tears as I saw it melting...

Sorry the files are not very well commented, sometimes in german, sometimes in
english. But they work and you can use them or any parts of it. Have a look on
my homepage now and then, perhaps you will find a better commented file or some
other interesting 3D-Stuff.