EMAIL: Kitsune_e@hotmail.com
NAME: Edward m. Blake
TOPIC: Loneliness
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Barren
COUNTRY: United States of America
WEBPAGE: N/A

RENDERER USED:
	Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer v3.5

TOOLS USED:
	Gilles Tran's MakeGrass include
	Tom Aust's tomtree package
	Daylon Leveller v2.0
	Jasc Paint Shop Pro v3.1

RENDER TIME:

	1h 18m 7s

	From concept to completion the scene took a little over two weeks.
	The final image took one hour and eighteen minutes to render.  I had
	planned to include some of the other statistics provided by POV, but
	I accidentally deleted the render messages instead of copying them...

HARDWARE USED:
	Pentium4 1.7GHz
	256Mb RAM
	Windows XP home edition

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
	This image was in all ways an experiment.  This is my first attempt to
	create a "complete" composition.  I attempted first to create a convincing
	setting.  I then tried to create an atmosphere by use of fog and focal 
blur.
	The image did not develop as I had wanted, but the end is true to my 
vision.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
	The development of this image was an intense learning experience.  I 
created
	about ten different height fields using different tools before arriving at
	the last one.  I then spent almost a week trying to create a 	texture for
	my field.  I tried separating segments by CSG, I tried assigning textures 
to
	ranges of values in my material map, and finally just created two gradients
	based on the height fields rgb values.  I experimented with fog and 
atmospheric
	media, and used focal blur and radiosity for the first time.  I am 
especially 	pleased by the effect of the focal blur, it reminds me of Tool's 
"Sober" video.
	I am sure that 	with more experience I could do better, but I am very happy 
with
	the results of my efforts.