TITLE: Born to be tree
NAME: Wolfram Diestel
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: diestel@steloj.de
TOPIC: Future
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: born2b3.jpg
ZIPFILE: born2b3.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    Arbaro 0.8

RENDER TIME: 
    4h

HARDWARE USED: 
    Duron 700, 128 MB

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


In an ever changing world there's no future without
evolution. Evolution means breaking through conventions
and limitations. 

The image shows the begin of such an evolution. 
A young tender tree broke trough the concrete ground
of a graveyard-like forest of dormant trees.
The future is present here as a shadow only, 
showing the tree as a strong, wild and healthy tree 
many years later. At the moment it still has to fight 
against heavy concrete slabs and the wind blowing 
away it's leaves.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The image consists of only three trees all made
with my own software Arbaro (http://arbaro.sourceforge.net
I included only the definition files for the trees in the 
zip archive, so you need Arbaro version 0.8 to make the 
tree include files for the scene) 
One of the trees is present in the scene as a shadow only. 
It was a little bit tricky ( for me unexperienced :) to get 
the light right on the small tree, because the big tree 
throws it's shadow on it. A spotlight with fine tuned 
radius and fade distance did it.
For the concrete ground I used an isosurface, so I had enough
memory for the trees. The forground slabs are made from
separate isosurfaces.