TITLE: The Alamo
NAME: Doug Offield
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: offield1@airmail.net
WEBPAGE: -
TOPIC: Fortress
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: db_alamo.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POVRay

TOOLS USED: 
    POVray, Moray, Rhino, and PhotoShop

RENDER TIME: 
    6min +/-

HARDWARE USED: 
    P3, 500mz, 128mb

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


The Alamo, evening after the defeat.

In March of 1836, the vastly superior army of Mexican General Santa Anna laid
siege for 13 days to the military outpost of the Alamo, containing 189 Texians,
trying to quell the revolution of independence. The evening after he had killed
the defenders and executed the survivors, Santa Anna ordered the townspeople to
dispose of the bodies. They stacked the bodies in alternating rows with
firewood, set fire to it, and saw it burn for two days.

In this view, you are looking east at sunset, and a fire in the courtyard that's
burning debris from the battle illuminates the Alamo. The cremations were
several hundred yards south, and according to some accounts, Davy Crockett was
killed at the left of your screen.

If you are interested, check out "The Alamo", and discover more of it's
history.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Rhino was used for all modeling, Moray to set the lights, camera, and finishes,
POVRay for the render, PhotoShop was used for the heightfields, bumpmaps, and
conversion to jpg.