TITLE: City Life Styles
NAME: Bob Franke
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: bfranke2@home.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/bob_franke/pov/pov.htm
TOPIC: The City
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: citylife.jpg
ZIPFILE: citylife.zip
RENDERER USED: 

POV-Ray 3.1g for Windows 95/98/NT


TOOLS USED: 

Poser2, Keith Rule's Wcvt2pov, Lview Pro for jpeg
conversion and copyright and the POV editor


RENDER TIME: 

    23hr 10min


HARDWARE USED: 

    generic Pentium-III 450 w/ 256 MB RAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

This image shows contrasting city life styles.  The scene
is from the alley behind an apartment building.  While the
people inside are living the "good life", the homeless
Vet outside is spending the night in a large cardboard box.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Construction of the image is simple CSG with some height
fields.  I used POV to create the height fields for the
bricks and the cobble stone alley surface.  Photostyler was
used to crop these height fields so I could tile them.  I
added another height field above the cobblestones with some
holes to give the effect of broken and worn asphalt.  The mortar
for the bricks is a thin box behind the brick height fields.

The legs and feet for the homeless Vet are Poser objects
converted to POV triangles with Wcvt2pov.

I was really late with this entry so I am just including my
POV code and it is pretty ugly.