TITLE: Avro Triplane over London
NAME: Ib Rasmussen
COUNTRY: Denmark
EMAIL: ibras@post4.tele.dk
WEBPAGE: http://home4.inet.tele.dk/ibras/
TOPIC: Flight
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: 1910avro.jpg
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.0
TOOLS USED: Programmer's File Editor, 2D CAD program.
RENDER TIME: 29h38m on the P90 (800x600 antialias 0.01)
HARDWARE USED: 150 MHz Pentium OD, 64 MB RAM and 90 MHz Pentium, 32 MB RAM.
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

   An Avro Triplane IV (from 1910) is scaring the birds over London.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

   I started out with the triplane, but found that a pure sky background
   was too simple, so I threw in the dome of St.Pauls, which I happened
   to have lying around from another project. Still having some time left
   till deadline, I got the idea of having a bird try to avoid the propeller.
   In the last minute I decided to have another bird fleeing towards the 
   camera.

   All is modelled in CSG. There is 15673 frame level objects in the scene
   (14510 in the dome, most of them outside the picture, 975 in the plane 
   and 94 in each bird).
   The plane and the dome of St. Pauls are modelled after pictures in
   Dorling Kindersley Ultimate Visual Dictionary (a goldmine for people
   like me, who can't make objects from their imagination). The birds are 
   based on various pictures of gulls, found on the Web.