EMAIL: malzach@rhrk.uni-kl.de NAME: Jens Malzacher TOPIC: ruins COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: black friday COUNTRY: germany RENDERER USED: pov-ray 3.1g TOOLS USED: moray 3.1, spatch 1.5, helixir 1.01 RENDER TIME: 0h 4min 12sec HARDWARE USED: PIII-500MHz, 128 Mb RAM PLEASE EXCUSE MY POOR ENGLISH!! IMAGE DESCRIPTION: What do you think of when you hear "ruins" ? Pretty old stones ? Ancient greece or something like that ? Well, that was excatly what I thought of at first. But ruins are more: not only the war scenes (spoken of on the irtc page) but also economic riun or personel ruin (which is for me as a beginner on pov-ray quite difficult to draw). So I decided to create an image showing an economic ruin. Something like the black friday in 1929. Somewhere in the dessert, you will find a table with a stock exchange rate - falling down, even crashing onto the planets surface, breaking through it. Then you will see hell-fire (mh, as far as something red und yellow is defined as fire ...). in the background you will find a forgotten rusty chemical plant (and some parts of it in the very foreground) - the company behind the table once run the plant. Now it is in middle of nowhere and nobody cares of that plant. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Well, it is the first time I am taking part at the irtc. And I am just started to create some of these pictures. So I am not very experienced. I just made up a kind of table in the foreground with some csg. With spatch I made the curve and then imported it into Moray. Everything else is just made with csg - the hole (lots of cubes) and the plant. One exception - the helixir was made with Helixir and was also imported into Moray. As I am not very experienced I have same serious problems in creating some good looking backgrounds and very foregrounds. So the horizon looks very boring and there is a kind of emptiness before the real action takes place in the foreground. I hope I can make better ones next time ...