TITLE: The X-Bridge NAME: Christoph Widdau COUNTRY: Germany EMAIL: cwiddau@mainz-online.de WEBPAGE: Sorry, not yet existent TOPIC: Imaginary Worlds COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: xbridge.jpg RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1 TOOLS USED: (none, it's pure POV-Ray), Paint Shop Pro for conversion into jpeg format RENDER TIME: 24 min without anti-aliasing, 10h 4m with +r3, +am2 +a0.3 HARDWARE USED: Pentium 166MHz IMAGE DESCRIPTION: An image of a bright clear world. Its people know, how to preserve its resources, because they are only a few. In this world technology and nature are not contrary to one another. For what purpose could they have build this construction? DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I don't like modellers very much because every time I try out one I get lost for hours in fumbling out the details of every little object. Therefore creating objects with algorithmic methods and the POV-Ray scene language is one of my favourite subjects. The main object in my scene, - I call it 'the bridge' -, consists of more than 42000 cylinders, spheres and boxes. Only one single basic union is needed to build the entire construction. First this basic object is placed into a matrix, then scaled, rotated and displaced using random numbers. The objects symmetry is achieved by changing the sign of one of the displace - vector components. I wish to thank all the authors of POV-Ray for this great software. Being a non-programmer they have my full admiration for their programming skills. My wish for the future is that the scene language will never be canceled to replace it by some sort of graphic entry or modeller.