TITLE: Trash
NAME: J
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: jhu@sdf.lonestar.org
TOPIC: From Rubbage Bin to Junkyard
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: trash1.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.5c

TOOLS USED: 
    Povray, vi, GIMP

RENDER TIME: 
    73 hours, 46 minutes, 4 seconds (265564 seconds)

HARDWARE USED: 
    Athlon 64, 2.4 GHz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

So what do we do with all of this radioactive waste we have lying around in
storage at our nuclear power plants? Why, we bury it somewhere of course! 

This is an artist's (if I can call myself that) conception of what one finished
tunnel system of the Yucca Mountain Repository, Nevada will look like upon
completion. This scene depicts a newly finished tunnel with a new gantry crane
carrying a waste container and pallet to its final destination at the end of
the tunnel. Once the tunnel is filled with waste containers, the gantry crane
will then be used to place titanium water shields over the waste containers.
Then the tunnel is closed off. 

As this is an "artist's" concept, there are some elements of the image that
probably won't be there in the actual completed system. Here's a list of what's
probably "wrong" with the image (although since the actual tunnel system isn't
finished yet, I'm not technically "wrong" yet):

1) The gantry crane probably won't be painted orange. They'll probably leave it
unpainted

2) They'll probably take the lights down because the gantry crane will be
computer controlled and will probably have its own light source. 

3) The waste container probably won't have a radioactive sign on it because
who's going to go down there once the tunnels are closed?

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

This is a fairly simple image really. Everything is a CSG - cylinders, boxes,
and toruses, except for the back wall which is a height field. I used quite a
few layered normals for the waste container, pallet, gantry crane, and rails. I
wanted to use area lights as well, but then the render time would have been too
long. 

The GIMP was used to convert the image to a jpeg file.