TITLE: "Interdisciplinary symposium for the Re- Creation of the Tree" NAME: Greg M. Johnson COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: gregj56590@aol.com WEBPAGE: None yet TOPIC: Still Images COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: irct.jpg ZIPFILE: irct.zip RENDERER USED: Povray 3.02 watcom32 TOOLS USED: Povray, CorelDraw7, Sonya Robert's "TREES.INC", textures from "POVLAB.INC" RENDER TIME: 54m 01s HARDWARE USED: Aptiva C9E, 200 MHz Pentium IMAGE DESCRIPTION: "Earth's ecosystem... A planet barely alive. We have the technology. We can rebuild it. Better. Faster. Stronger." After the extinction of the tree, scientists hold a symposium to explore bringing trees back to life by a technology called "rendering." This image was inspired by a comment made about my last entry to the IRTC. Someone suggested that I use a canned ".INC" file to create a tree or bush instead of making my own crappy one. I thought that an interesting tie into the "Nature" theme would be a sort of IRTC-like competition between bungling scientists to re-invent the tree. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Povray was used to create all objects. The sign was created as a GIF with Corel Draw7. Sonya Robert's "trees.inc" is used in the center chamber. I didn't want to turn my entry into either a sheepish tribute to or a slam against her utility. I think the lighting I chose to use makes this image closer to the former. The tree on the left is my own creation, a collection of cones of varying diameters, inpsired by L-systems after reading the book, "Chaos and Fractals." The tree on the right is the crackle texture applied to a set of spheres. In contrast, I included a few inept entries, such as a Christmas tree made out of cones, and a simple sphere attached to a misaligned cylinder. The sky is the "anticyclone" texture by Denis Olivier from the POVLAB.INC The people are blobs of my own creation. I am not including this .INC in my zip collection because it's not finished. Right now, the people look acceptable running around at a distance, but have no hands, and a superellipsoid for a head. I don't want to see crappy artwork in the future which uses my men close up and gives me credit!