TITLE: sge NAME: Garry J. Vass EMAIL: Garry@gvass.demon.co.uk TOPIC: Great Engineering Acheivements COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: sge.jpg ZIPFILE: sge.zip RENDERER USED: POV 3.02 TOOLS USED: Engin, Volute, Rr, and Gjvrec (see below). RENDER TIME: about 3 hours HARDWARE USED: 166 pentium IMAGE DESCRIPTION: In 1802, King George III commanded William Lambton to undertake a trigonometrical survey of India. Lambton died in 1823 and was succeeded by Sir George Everest (as in "Mount"), who saw the project to its completion in 1843. The trigonometrical survey of India, a 41 year effort, ranks as one of history's greatest engineering acheivements. My entry commemorates this accomplishment. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Engin, Volute, Rr, and Gjvrec are tools that I wrote. I used Engin to generate the lights, the basic textures, the dome, and the POV main file. Volute creates a column with a volute capital. I used Rr (as in Read Rib) to create the human head object. Gjvrec made the tesselated sphere. All of these hacks use a common C++ class library that is wrapped around POV.