TITLE: A new planet - The green desert
NAME: Raphael Teysseyre
COUNTRY: France

EMAIL: lefra@voila.fr
WEBPAGE: http://asfixy.lsdp.net

TOPIC: Desert
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: grdesert.jpg
ZIPFILE: grdesert.zip
RENDERER USED: 

        PovRay for Windows 3.6.0


TOOLS USED: 

        Paint Shop Pro 5 (Jpeg conversion, gamma correction and rescaling)


RENDER TIME: 

        Approximately 2 hours
        

HARDWARE USED: 

        Athlon Xp 1600+


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

        A desert is a place where nobody lives, another planet than Earth is
thus a giant desert.
        Why green? I don't know... I think it's better green.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

        The first thing I made in this image is the ground: it's an height field
with two dents patterns (one for the great shapes, the other for the details).
I then added a great cylinder around the camera, filled with green scattering
media which makes the atmospheric effect around the sun. There's a ground fog
which makes the horizon lighter than the rest of the sky. The sand falling down
the right hill is made with a second height_field, with the same function as
the first height field, but with less precision, and filled with media. This
second height field is then scaled and moved until giving a good effect.
        I made a 1024*768 render (avaible in the zip file), and then rescaled
the image to 640*480 for the irtc. I gamma-corrected the images because it was
too green: I made it a little redder.