EMAIL: helene.dumur@free.fr
NAME: Helene DUMUR
TOPIC: loneliness
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: logcabin
COUNTRY: France
WEBPAGE: http://helene.dumur.free.fr/index.htm
RENDERER USED: POV 3.1 for Linux
TOOLS USED: HfLab - MakeTree (Gilles Tran) - Arbres (Jean-Laurent Pradel) 
RENDER TIME: 3h
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 200 - Linux Mandrake 7.2

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
Well.. I've spend my last holidays in Alaska. It's a very very big country (an amazing country too..), with few inhabitants. Even now, a lot of people stay alone in the bush, looking for game, or fishing, with nobody all around. To create this image, I've thought at somebody, living in a logcabin, in the middle of the birchs, at the foot of high mountains, cutting wood to put in the stove... silent and alone, during the begining of autumn.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
All the shapes are made with only POV 3.1 ; All of them are very simple shapes (cylinders, boxes, prisms, quartic) : the cabin, the axe, the logs, the mushrooms.. some height fields, too (HfLab)
For the trees : the big one came from the well known MakeTree (by Gilles Tran), I have changed the colors of the leaves (autumn colors..) and the others from an include written by Jean-Laurent Pradel, modified to get the shape and the colors I wanted. Thanks to Fabien Mosen for the smoke ! 
I have tried to mix all this to create a picture evoking an alaskan loneliness.