EMAIL: ojamies@iobox.fi
NAME: Tuomas Ojamies
TOPIC: The City
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Before The Storm
COUNTRY: Finland
WEBPAGE: www.helsinki.fi/~ojamies/graphics/
RENDERER USED: Povray
TOOLS USED: sPatch, LeoCAD, Wcvt2pov
RENDER TIME: 23 min
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 400 MHz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

It was before the fever - the storm. It was the most horrible storm
ever. People were going home to wait rain or wind.

They got rain and wind.

But the storm was only beginning, few years after came the fever witch
threatened whole Empire. After that came the great fire, witch destroyed
most of The City.

- Samout the Dirty, historian

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

Idea to this images was from Emit - MUD developed by friend of mine.
Emit has huge world with accurate historian and lots of stories
- only waiting someone to put it on colour.

I tried to have a bit more complex structure in this image.
Instead of one main object I have now three (TheTower, TheBridge and
TheTemple) and I like the result.

TheTower at front is interesting object. Changing some variables
can make it look guide different. Brick measures, angle of roof,
width of window, total brick layers in tower... Still TheTower
doesn't look as I planed. Colours are terrible.

The dark inside of Tower was hard. Other shadows in scene are very
weak but inside TheTower was supposed to be guide dark. I have
rgbt <0,0,0,.5> texture that makes the effect =).

Bridge was easily done after I decided to "forget" one small detail.
Engineers should notice something weird in TheBridge.

TheTemple is simple box-cylinder object - nothing fancy. It looks
still quite nice.

Boats and humans were made with sPatch and converted to triangles. 
Great tool! Humans in this scene are so small (.35 units tall)
that patches didn't work. Perhaps I found accuracy limit of Povray?

Final touch is not good. Colours are not what I was trying to get and
I faced the gamma-problem fist time. If this has awful gamma please
tell me what to do differently.

I still have long way to go.

- Tuomas "Gutterman" Ojamies