TITLE: Glide
NAME: Ron Gow
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: rgow@lanset.com
TOPIC: Toys & Games
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: glide_rg.jpg
ZIPFILE: glide_rg.zip
RENDERER USED: 

    PovRay 3.5


TOOLS USED: 

    QtPoveditor, Terragen
    GIMP used for signature and conversion to .jpg


RENDER TIME: 

    Terragen:  1 hr 28 min
    PovRay:    46 min


HARDWARE USED: 

    Pentium IV 1.8gz
    512 mg RAM



IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


What was once impossible is now play.  Since before recorded history man
watched the birds flying overhead and tried to figure out how to fly
himself.  Successful at last, man's quest then became to improve on the
complicated science of aerodynamics, fly higher, further and faster.

Flight became a commercial enterprise, people flying around the world in
large, expensive airliners, piloted by the highly trained elite. Only in
the last 35 years has personal flight entered the lives of ordinary man.

Hang gliders require training to fly, but the training and expense is
within the means of adventurous individuals worldwide, and hangliding has
brought man's perpetual dream to thousands, who can now take to the air
for the sheer fun of it.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Pretty simple. I had wanted to do the landscape in POV, but I had very
little time to work on this round, so never got it finished. Settled on
using Terragen instead.

Background rendered in Terragen and mapped to a box in POV.

Hangliders are CSG and the pilots are a union of sphere_sweeps.

Lighting is just a point_light positioned to match the light in the
background, and another point_light closer to the camera to provide fill.

Zip file contains the whole scene, but I reduced the background image in
size and converted it to .jpg for size.

Good luck to all!