TITLE: Erasmusbrug NAME: Marc JACQUIER COUNTRY: France EMAIL: jacquier.marc@wanadoo.fr WEBPAGE: www.marcjacquier.fr.st TOPIC: Architecture COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: erasmus.jpg RENDERER USED: Povray 3.5 TOOLS USED: Moray 3.5 beta, Gilles Tran's makecloud macro, Pov-tree RENDER TIME: approx. 30h HARDWARE USED: Athlon 1GHz 384MB SDRAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This image was inspired by Erasmus bridge over the Meuse/Maas river in Rotterdam (NL). http://glasssteelandstone.com/NL/RotterdamErasmusbrug.html I was striken by it's bold assymetrical 139 meters high two legs pylon. http://glasssteelandstone.com/NL/RotterdamErasmusbrug.html DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The pylon is a mesh made in Moray 3.5 The deck is made of deck and streetway elements copied along a spline. Water is a simple plane with pigment, normal and Fresnel reflection. Trees are a slightly tweaked Pov-tree birch copied along linear two entries splines. Seaguls are mesh and bicubic patches modeled in Moray 3.5 Clouds, well Gilles Tran nicely let me try his new macro thanks a lot Gilles :-)