TITLE: The Fortress Island
NAME: Louis Gagnon-S_guin
COUNTRY: Qu_bec, Canada
EMAIL: popo_16@hotmail.com
TOPIC: Fortress
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: lgisland.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    Paint shop pro for jpeg conversion

RENDER TIME: 
    2h30min

HARDWARE USED: 
    pentium II 350 Mhz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

My goal was to make a riven-like fortress on an island with rusty buildings but
with sort of a modern architecture.
The island is protected by a prickly fence and by 2 canons.
I wanted also to give an impressive look to the 3 towers.
The 2 golden objects are of course, inspired by Riven (cf beetles)

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The buildings are all made of CSG. Textures are made of color_maps, bump_maps
and material_maps.

Statistics (approximatly):
200 torus
200 boxes
300 cylinders
400 spheres
300 cones

The island is an height_field. (we can see it on the glass reflections)
Some of the images for bump_maps are modified images I took from 3D
cafe.(www.3dcafe.com).

special thanx for french pov forum (news.fr) and all their participants.


Ps: sorry for my bad english, I'm francophone.
I just wanted to say also that it is only my second image