TITLE: Hole Bridge NAME: Thomas R. Etterl_ COUNTRY: FRANCE EMAIL: rastacouette@hotmail.com WEBPAGE: n/a TOPIC: Architecture COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT JPGFILE: avzbridg.jpg RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.5 TOOLS USED: Corel Photo Paint 7.0 RENDER TIME: 1h HARDWARE USED: Pentium III, 667 Mhz, 128MB RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: What about a bridge to cross a hole? What about taking a deep breath coming out of a tunnel to see an impressive piece of architecture, just before driving into a second dark ugly tunnel? Architecture is just something awesome, unexpected and unique... DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Well, I was always attracted to bridges, maybe because it's a link between 2 worlds? a dash between 2 univers? All this scene was made with pov-ray 3.5. some bicubic patchs for the "feets of the bridge", some bicubic patchs for the cars/buses/trucks, some primal boxes, cylinders, torus for the bridge and 4 heighfields for the mountains/hole. the shape for the hole was made with Corel photo paint, that's the only time I've used an other program. the sky is a huge sphere with a cloud texture and some long distance fog to have this white impression between the sky and the mountain. What else? Well some imagination, long time for programing and that's it! First time in the competition. special thanks to my family for helping with suggestions, and very special thanks for my wonderfull girlfriend!