TITLE: The Waste Land NAME: Sherry K. Shaw COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: tenmoons@aol.com TOPIC: Desert COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: sks_wste.jpg RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.5 TOOLS USED: Poser 4, PoseRay, POVTree, Photoshop, under Windows 2000 RENDER TIME: 1h 7m 17s HARDWARE USED: Athlon, 1.1 Ghz, 256 mg IMAGE DESCRIPTION: What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust. (From "The Waste Land" by T. S. Eliot) DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The ground, hills, and sand piles are height_fields. I decided to go more for baked ground, largely denuded of topsoil, rather than sand. The ground texture is a slope map, with a layered limestone texture for the nearly vertical areas, and a different, altitude-sensitive slope map to get the alkali deposits left by water rushing down the ramp when whatever happened here, happened. The red rock is an isosurface (three spheres and some agate). The limestone blocks are a random mix of rounded rectangles and slightly-tortured somewhat-rectangular meshes. The "cricket" is a lot of CSG (mostly superellipsoids) and is loosely modelled on the Mars rovers (but, wherever this is, it isn't Mars). The dead tree was made with POVTree. The skeleton and the dolls are Poser figures, converted to POV format with PoseRay. The light is cranked up well past white. There is radiosity. I used Photoshop to add the title, copyright, and email line, and to convert the finished image from BMP to JPG format (72 DPI, quality 10).