TITLE: Iced Land NAME: Tim Nikias Wenclawiak COUNTRY: Germany EMAIL: Tim.Nikias@gmx.de WEBPAGE: http://www.digitaltwilight.de/no_lights/index.html TOPIC: Loneliness COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: tnw_icla.jpg ZIPFILE: tnw_icla.zip RENDERER USED: Povray 3.5 TOOLS USED: Paint Shop Pro 7 RENDER TIME: 6h 2min 54sec HARDWARE USED: 1.4 GHZ Athlon, 512 MB RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A vast and cold landscape. Who would actually want to live here all alone? DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Like always, I used no external modeller, everything was done in pure POV. I was actually scripting a program which eventually should be used to vegetate heightfields, and had been thinking about making a grass-covered landscape with but one flower. As a friend pointed out that amidst all the grass, a flower doesn't appear that lonely, I left the grass away, and after moving across some desert-like images (the color of the landscape was too much influenced by the sunset), I ended up with this winter-like scene. I've modelled a single heightfield using pigment- patterns, and placed this one several times for depth. The iglu is made with simple CSG: some spheres, cylinders and torii did the job. The sky and haze was achieved using scattering and emission media, which was kinda difficult to tweak, cause every new test-run requires some time to trace... The sun was modelled using a cone filled with scattering media, positioned with the wide end near the camera and the tip towards the light-source. The soft glow on the iglu was also achieved with an emission-media in a sphere-container. All in all, a rather simple image, the hard part was tweaking the lights and media. You may email me if you have questions: Tim.Nikias@gmx.de