EMAIL: j.diehl@firemail.de
NAME: Jochen Diehl
TOPIC: Winter
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: we_melt
COUNTRY: Germany
WEBPAGE: http://enter.diehlsworld.de
RENDERER USED: povray 3.1
TOOLS USED: no 3D-tools, but PhotoShop to create or alter some of the heightfields/bumpmaps
RENDER TIME: 6 hours
HARDWARE USED: Pentium II 450 Mhz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
Look at it for a while, an it will tell you what happened...

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
On March, 21st I went to the northern polar circle and took a snapshot of this scene, where some snowmen had built that beautiful palace in winter and didn't think about the sun rising again after a half year. They had built it just some kilometers too far in the south. I never saw one of them again... ;-)
It's fully created in Pov-Ray and it took me 1h for the concept, about 30h for the details and about 3 days of tears as I saw it melting...

Sorry the files are not very well commented, sometimes in german, sometimes in english. But they work and you can use them or any parts of it. Have a look on my homepage now and then, perhaps you will find a better commented file or some other interesting 3D-Stuff.