EMAIL:  KAllen4465@aol.com
NAME:  Kurt Allen
TOPIC:  Summer
COPYRIGHT:  I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED:  POVRAY 3.0 (windows beta version}
TOOLS USED:  Terrain Maker
RENDER TIME:  36 hours at 1024 x 768 (thanks to the area light)
HARDWARE USED:  Pentium 75 with 16 Mb RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:  A desert scene featuring sand dunes,  mountains and a dry
lakebed.  The sun is just
 about to go down on three vultures, a cow skull, and a dead tree with a sign
that reads "The End Is Near"
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:  I tried to incorporate as many new
features of
POVRAY 3.0 as I could starting with the crackle pigment which ended up pretty
good after 75 or so tries.  Other 
new features used include ground fog, halo (the sun and eyeballs on the
vultures), skysphere, and  ttf font.  The
tree and sign, cowskull, and vultures were built using pure CSG.  I have access
to modeling programs. but I take 
a perverse pride in using CSG to build complex models.  All you need is graph
paper and imagination!  The 
message "THE END IS NEAR" can be interpreted many different ways, but in my
case, I finished the final render 
the same day I gave notice I was quiting my job.   :-)