TITLE: The Flying Ship of Atlantis
NAME: Nathan O'Brien
COUNTRY: Austrailia
EMAIL: no13@ozemail.com.au
WEBPAGE: www.ozemail.com.au/~no13
TOPIC: flight
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: 13flyshp.jpg
ZIPFILE: 13flyshp.zip
RENDERER USED: povray 3 for windows
TOOLS USED: Autocad, Paintshop pro 4, dxf2raw, raw2pov, colormixwer 2
RENDER TIME: 4 hours 31 mintes
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133 with 64Mb of ram. Windows NT$ os.
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Two of the many architectural styles of the Nineteenth century were Neo
Classicism and Romanticism.
They were manifest not just in built architecture but in other areas of art
such
as painting. When
the topic of flight was announced the first thing I thought of was a lithograph
I had seen from
this period showing a vertical city. The city was built in a Neo Classical
style
with balloons as
the main mode of transport. The balloons resembled sailing ships. I used this
image as the inspiration
for my entry. Being an Architect I've decided to incorporate more architectural
elements into
my entries while still being true to the topic. It will be interesting to see
if
I can pull it off.

The image shows a flying ship, a romantic (flight of fantasy) setting and a
flight of stairs.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The image was created using a variety ot techniques from autocad modelling to
writing the code
directly and modelling on the run. The lens flare effect was created using an
INC file created
by Nathan Kopp. (this file was based on work done by Chris Colefax, so thanks
to
both of them)

The entire scene was fist modelled using very simple primitives for all objects
with a default
White pigment. This was done so that I could pay attention to the images
composition without
being distracted by colour or detail. After I was happy with the composition I
then proceeded
to add both colour and detail to the various objects.

The cloak on the stairs was modelled in Autocad. I constructed a wire model of
the stairs and then
modelled the cloak around the wire frame. When the cloak was exported as a dxf
and converted to
pov format it only had to be inserted as it was modelled with the correct
coordinates in Autocad.

The shield and spears were created directly in the text editer as was most of
the flying ship. The
temples were drawn (not modelled) completly in autcad and exported into a pov
model format using 
a customised lsp routine.
It exports autocad information