TITLE: Picnic at Giza NAME: emkaah EMAIL: emkaah@yahoo.com TOPIC: desert COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: em_giza.jpg ZIPFILE: em_giza.zip RENDERER USED: Povray 3.6 TOOLS USED: RENDER TIME: 2h 46m HARDWARE USED: Pentium 4 2.66 Ghz IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Deserted pyramids in the desert by a deserted civilisation, with a family preparing for dessert. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The pyramids exists of individual stones (randomized superellipsoids and isosurfaces), the sand is a produceral heightfield, the rubble is placed with the trace function, the car is a mesh downloaded from the internet (adjusted to open the hatch) and the family is a bunch of spheres and cones. And then I tweaked it all (a lot) until I was satisfied, which I am now, sort of. I included the code (except the car), for the ones who are interested, but it is very messy, so beware.