TITLE: City in the Snow
NAME: Justin Whitton
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
EMAIL: justin.whitton@rayjay.clara.co.uk
WEBPAGE: www.rayjay.clara.co.uk
TOPIC: The City
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: jw_cits.jpg
ZIPFILE: jw_cits.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    WinMegaPov 0.4

TOOLS USED: 

        Paint Shop Pro for creating Ident text height field
        WebGraphics Optimizer for image conversion


RENDER TIME: 
    18 hrs as a Background task

HARDWARE USED: 
    Intel PII/450MHz 128MB

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

        Population and environmental pressures have created the need
for cities to be built in locations previously thought too harsh to
sustain large populations.
        Here we see a typical new mountain city. Like most harsh
environment cities, the majority is underground, but the need to see
blue sky means that a grid of grey rectangular office/accomodation
blocks nestle in the curve of the mountainside. Also visible is the
large fusion reactor that powers the city and its outpost (you can
see a quad-jet performing a visual inspection of the data/power line
connecting the outpost), and the quad-jet port which provides the
only physical link to the rest of the world.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

        The picture relies heavily on features added to POV 3.1 by
Nathan Kopp's MegaPov.
        The landscape is a Ridged Multi-Fractal IsoSurface (included
in the Zip file is an image of the landscape alone).
        All buildings except the far reactor and the landing pad of
the quad-jet port, are CSGs of boxes, spheres and cylinders. The
reactor, quad-jet landing pad and quad-jets are blobs.
        Almost all textures were applied via slope_maps with a bozo
sub-texture used to stop the snow forming straight lines on the
buildings.
        Rendered with radiosity so that the shadows are not black,
which increases the blue in the image and drops the perceived
temperature by a few degrees.
        The only post-processing done on the image was to convert
from tga to jpeg.
        Zip file includes full source.