TITLE: SpongeCity
NAME: Bill DeWitt
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: thedewitts@earthlink.net
WEBPAGE: none
TOPIC: Ruins
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: spongeci.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    MegaPov

RENDER TIME: 
    22 hrs

HARDWARE USED: 
    PII 400

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Several floating apartment buildings in a mountian valley. The nearer one shows
that they are long abandoned and begining to erode.

Thanks to John VanSickle for his help in getting over a mental hump.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

These are the objects I used to cut holes in a solid box to form a Menenger
Sponge. I thought the array of blocks were more interesting than the Sponge
itself. I had done some test renders of the sponge being a city but gave it up
for lack of interest. 

Then the Ruins topic came up and I had just been messing with the IsoSurfaces in
MegaPov. I made a block with some noise and over laid it with one of the
textures I had used to represent landings and windows. I also used some
atmospheric haze and some cirrus clouds in a dome over the buildings but had an
unfortunate crash and started over, slashing the textures and clouds to a
minimum in order to get this done in time.

I really hate it but wanted to submit it anyway just to embarrass myself into
starting earlier next time. I have not submitted the source because it is
absolutely nothing of interest.