TITLE: Frozen Utopia
NAME: John D. Stevens
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: spanky@wpi.edu
WEBPAGE: http://davis.wpi.edu/~spanky/
TOPIC: Nature
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT
JPGFILE: frozutop.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.0

TOOLS USED: 
    Form 0.5a

RENDER TIME: 
    1 hour 6 minutes 28 seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    AMD K6 233 w/48 MB EDO RAM

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    This image was built back
to front, first building the background, moving through the midground,
and finally arriving at the foreground.  I started off this scene by 
creating a simple ground plane and gradient for the sky.  I then placed
the moon and began playing around with different sky configurations. 
I also had to play around with spotlights to get the lighting on the 
moon correct.  Next, I built some height fields and placed them on the
horizon line.  They looked kinda crappy just sinking straight into
a flat surface, so I added some fog in the distance.  For the midground
I created several differenced disks with a watery type texture, and 
layed out the marble architecture.  The writing on the bannister is in
Klingon(if anyone is curious what it means, you can email me). 
The chalice was rendered in Form 0.5a, which is a cool freeware program
which creates complicated shapes out of primitives such as spheres and
boxes.  The rose and wildlife was modeled with form as well. There you
have it, the rest was just a little magic that my imagination 
threw together.