TITLE: Atlas carrying the world NAME: Pierre Schwartz COUNTRY: France EMAIL: schwartz.pierre@laposte.net WEBPAGE: http://khayyam.suidzer0.org TOPIC: Forces of Nature COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. RENDERER USED: PovRay 3.6 TOOLS USED: gimp + Megapov 1.10 RENDER TIME: 20 min HARDWARE USED: XP2000+ 256Mo IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Do you remember Atlas' legend ? this giant was condamned to carry the world. And now ... who is carrying our world ? The nature is supporting everthing and i'm sure it's heavier and heavier because of human being unsetting all the nature systems. For me, this tree carrying this earth symbolizes actual nature : looking full of forces but in fact, very fragile. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I tried to create this image only in using PovRay tools. So I used the height field generator by François Dispot to create the grass, Megapov to create the curtain mesh and PovRay to render it. Details to render the picture are in atlas.pov in zip file