EMAIL: d.verhelst@ulg.ac.be NAME: Damien Verhelst TOPIC: First encounter COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Snowy on the moon COUNTRY: Belgium WEBPAGE: http://isis.ltas.ulg.ac.be/geradin/personnel/verhelst/ RENDERER USED: Povray 3.0 TOOLS USED: AC3D v1.66a, Gforge v1.3a to generate the height-field Corel Photopaint to modify the height-field and to convert the image RENDER TIME: 36 min ( resolution 1024x768 ) HARDWARE USED: Pentium II 266 Mhz - 128 Mb Ram IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Since I was 8 years old and I read my first Tintin adventure, I have had a fascination with the boy reporter and his dog that I have never grown out of. My favorite albums are the moon adventure. ("Destination Moon" and "Explorers on the Moon") The second part of this adventure was a chance for Hergé to work free from the constraints of science. Apart from fundamental facts such as gravity, nothing was known about the moon or manned space flight, so he was free to use his inventive qualities. He does not become too fantastic however. The strangest thing Tintin finds on the moon is water. But water doesn't mean life? And if Tintin had discovered a human skeleton? Maybe, Tintin wasn't the first man on the moon. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Modelling: What is there to tell? It's a very simple image with some simple objects. Almost all objects are primitives or CSG objects, modeled in POV's Scene Description Language. The boots are made from blobs. The heightfield was generated by Gforge. The boot traces were added with Corel. The hardest part was to create the head of snowy. For this purpose, I used AC3D. Lights: There are only two lights in the scene: a spot light and a point light. Files:All files for rendering this scene are included in the Zip-File, but the source-code isn't documented. This is my first picture I sent to the IRTC, I hope you'll like it. Thanks to the POV-Team for their fabulous POV-Ray software and to the IRTC Team for running the contest. Best regards Damien Verhelst