TITLE: Views Of Our Past

NAME: Marvin Taylor
COUNTRY: U.S.A.

EMAIL: irtc_submission@maltasoft.com
TOPIC: Great Inventions
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: mtstone.jpg
ZIPFILE: mtstone.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    povray 3.5


TOOLS USED: 
    GNU Emacs, ruler, pencil & paper. CJPEG for converting PPM-JPG


RENDER TIME: 
    1255 seconds


HARDWARE USED: 
    Developed on an Athlon XP 3300+, final image on a P4 2.8GHz


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


  A cloudy day at Stonehenge.  The stones used here are smooth,
regular versions of the real things; sort of what might have been had
they used laser-guided numerical drills to make it.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


  I've never been able to find precise measurments/description of how
the stones are laid out.  I used text and sketches in some books I got
from the Gift Shop when I visited there years ago, but the images in
the books are not orthographic..

  FYI, the large image was created with Radiosity turned on; the small
image in the ZIP was created with it turned off.

  The (sole) source file is contained in the ZIP; feel free to use it
for any project you wish, but if you do, please drop me a line (see
the source for my email address).