TITLE: Building View
NAME: Jeffrey Cameron Loper
COUNTRY: United States
EMAIL: jcloper@yahoo.com
WEBPAGE: N/A
TOPIC: The City
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.0
TOOLS USED: SPatch
RENDER TIME: 10h : 34m : 46s
HARDWARE USED: Pentium - 133MHz
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
With this image I wanted to get a snapshot of the progression of the city to all steel and glass.  The building under retrofit construction, with its rusted girders, I think, contrasts with the glassy buildings beside it.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
The buildings were built up with unions of boxes and cylinders.  The streets and sidewalks are just textured boxes.

Models of the construction material (plywood, I-beams, and metal platforms) were declared and placed around the construction area to give a haphazard work area look.

I used SPatch to create the lamps on the streetlights.  The stoplights and crosswalk lights were created using the POV-Ray macros feature.

I just started with POV-Ray in December, and I have found it to be a great program--very capable and well built.  I especially like its ability to define pictures like computer programs (macros, for loops, etc.).  This is my first entry into IRTC, with more to come I hope.