EMAIL: cwiddau@mainz-online.de

NAME: Christoph Widdau

TOPIC: Imaginary Worlds

COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.

TITLE: The X-Bridge

COUNTRY: Germany

WEBPAGE: Sorry, not yet existent

RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1

TOOLS USED: (none, it's pure POV-Ray), Paint Shop Pro for conversion into jpeg format

RENDER TIME: 24 min without anti-aliasing, 10h 4m with +r3, +am2 +a0.3

HARDWARE USED: Pentium 166MHz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
An image of a bright clear world. Its people know, how to preserve its resources, 
because they are only a few. In this world technology and nature are not contrary 
to one another. For what purpose could they have build this construction?

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
I don't like modellers very much because every time I try out one I get lost for 
hours in fumbling out the details of every little object. Therefore creating objects 
with algorithmic methods and the POV-Ray scene language is one of my favourite subjects. 
The main object in my scene, - I call it 'the bridge' -, consists of more than 42000 
cylinders, spheres and boxes. Only one single basic union is needed to build the 
entire construction. First this basic object is placed into a matrix, then scaled, 
rotated and displaced using random numbers. The objects symmetry is achieved by 
changing the sign of one of the displace - vector components.

I wish to thank all the authors of POV-Ray for this great software. Being a non-programmer 
they have my full admiration for their programming skills. My wish for the future is that 
the scene language will never be canceled to replace it by some sort of graphic entry or 
modeller.