TITLE: St. Marks Place & 2nd
NAME: Jim Charter
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: jrcsurvey@aol.com
WEBPAGE: members.aol.com\jrcsurvey
TOPIC: The City
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: stmarksp.jpg
ZIPFILE: stmarksp.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    MegaPOV

TOOLS USED: 
    PSP, Poser

RENDER TIME: 
    17h 33m

HARDWARE USED: 
    Athlon650

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

The scene shows a view of the intersection at 2nd Ave and St. Mark's Place, New
York City, as one enters the street from my building. To me, 'the city' defines
an environment, a human condition, even a state of mind for one to inhabit. It
contributes to an identity. So I pictured my neighbourhood. It seems to me that
the image, and 'the city', are as notable for what you don't see, as for what
you do. 


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The image makes use of the motion_blur feature of Mega POV-Ray.  The tree
include files were generated from 'maketree' by Gilles Tran.  All modelling,
except the two poser figures in the forground, is csg. Signs are image_maps.
Neon signs are text objects, 'font.inc' (Michael Johnson) saw use. People and
pavement are blobs. Pose2pov (Steve Sloan) used to import the poser figures.
SplineR (Chris Colefax) also sees some use.