TITLE: Sonya's Tree
NAME: Robert Lowell
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: lowellr@globaldialog.com
WEBPAGE: None
TOPIC: Glass
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: araml4.jpg
ZIPFILE: araml4.zip
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IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
       We were almost done with winter. The ice on the lake was finally breaking
up.
       The trees were starting to bud and then we get another Sleet storm and
       winter is back.
       

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
       I started with the tree file. The bark texture is T_Glass3A. The leaf
       texture is T_Green_Glass. I left the unions in the tree file as unions
       instead of change them to merges because the effect of a ice covered
tree
       was closer.
       The ice fields and moutains are the plasma3.gif pulled, stretched, and
       otherwise maulled into shape. The lakes and river are a plane.

       The porch is built block by block in a series of loops.
       The lamp is a glass cylinder with the light source inside

       The wind chime is another set of loops and glass shapes

       Rendering with the follwing setting
Width=800
Height=600
Antialias_Depth=3
Antialias=On
Antialias_Threshold=0.1
Jitter_Amount=0.5
Jitter=On

  global_settings {
   max_trace_level 8
   adc_bailout 9/255
   assumed_gamma 2.2
 }
    
     started at the rate of 30 LINES per 18 hrs. which means this would
     have been submitted sometime in mid-March
     
     I then rendered the "outside" at the same settings (26 hrs), mapped it to a
box
     and scaled it to fit the screen. I then rendered the "inside" along with
     the "outside on a box" (3 hrs) and quit while I was behind.
     
     The source code is being provided with the following warning. I am not
"neat"
     The "outside" .tga file is not being provided (1.4 meg) but can be
     regenerated by running the marked files.