EMAIL: lamere@speakeasy.org
NAME: Lamere Family
TOPIC: Winter
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Back Mountain Road
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE:
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.1
TOOLS USED: Gimp for JPEG creation
	Spline Tree by Andrew Clinton at http://povplace.addr.com/

RENDER TIME: 4 Hours 3 minutes
HARDWARE USED: 1.4 GHz P4, RH 7.2 Linux

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
	A family effort by Paul(42), Chris(12), Cari(11), Liz(10) and
	Jennie(7). This is our second IRTC entry.  We wanted to create
	an image that could be considered 'artistic' this round, one
	that would be appealing if we hung it on the wall.

	This is a winter scene, reminiscent of a place that we used to live, 
	Back Mountain Road, Goffstown NH. The hills are called the Uncannoonuc
	Mountains.
	

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

	Thanks to Andrew Clinton for his fine Splinetree macro. His trees
	really make the image.

	Fence is simple CFG with some looping and randomness thrown in. For
	those from more temperate climes, snow fences really are this funny
	red color, by the way.

	The Hills/Mountains were created with a single lathe object that was
	scaled rotated to make all non-flat ground.

	Tire tracks are just long boxes subtracted from the snow.

	Mailboxes are simple CFG.

	We used a sky by Norbert Kern (miracle.jpg) as a starting point for
	this sky.

	We tried some radiosity, but felt the image was too washed out, so we
	went back to the sharper but less realistic image.

	There are some image artifacts (stray pixels) left by Povray in the
	sky and left mountain. We are not sure what caused this. Any ideas?