TITLE: Building View
NAME: Jeffrey Cameron Loper
COUNTRY: United States
EMAIL: jcloper@yahoo.com
WEBPAGE: N/A
TOPIC: The City
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: bldgview.jpg
ZIPFILE: bldgview.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.0

TOOLS USED: 
    SPatch

RENDER TIME: 
    10h 34m 46s

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium - 133MHz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

With this image I wanted to get a snapshot of the progression of the city to all
steel and glass.  The building under retrofit construction, with its rusted
girders, I think, contrasts with the glassy buildings beside it.




DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The buildings were built up with unions of boxes and cylinders.  The streets and
sidewalks are just textured boxes.

Models of the construction material (plywood, I-beams, and metal platforms) were
declared and placed around the construction area to give a haphazard work area
look.

I used SPatch to create the lamps on the streetlights.  The stoplights and
crosswalk lights were created using the POV-Ray macros feature.

I just started with POV-Ray in December, and I have found it to be a great
program--very capable and well built.  I especially like its ability to define
pictures like computer programs (macros, for loops, etc.).  This is my first
entry into IRTC, with more to come I hope.