EMAIL: buck@cs.byu.edu NAME: Jamis Buck TOPIC: Nature COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: On Top of the World COUNTRY: USA WEBPAGE: http://students.cs.byu.edu/~buck RENDERER USED: TMPov for POVRay 3.02a TOOLS USED: Height-Field Lab GWD Text Editor v. 2.0 RENDER TIME: 2h 46m 32s settings: +W800 +H340 +A0.0 HARDWARE USED: Pentium 100MHz 24M RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Standing on top of a mountain after a strenuous climb, looking out at the scenery. Nature is revealed in all its majesty from such remote places! DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The landscape was created as a height-field in hf-lab and tiled in a 12x12 grid and then textured using slope-dependent textures. The trees were created as a mesh using POV's wonderful while loops in conjunction with TMPov's hf_height_at (to give the height of the height-field at a given point). The position of each tree was contrained to fall only between a given minimum altitude and a given maximum altitude, and only on a spot that was no steeper than a given maximum agnel. The generated mesh was then tiled with the height fields. The water is simply a reflective plane. The sky is a gradient pigment with a wrinkle pattern at the lowest levels.