EMAIL: christoph.gerber@roche.com
NAME: Christoph Gerber
TOPIC: Unbelievable
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Atlantis
COUNTRY: Switzerland
WEBPAGE:
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray Superpatch
TOOLS USED: Fractint, GForge, Genesis Toolkit, Poser, LView (for jpg-conversion)
RENDER TIME: 4h 6' 20''
HARDWARE USED: Pentium II 450 with 132 MB RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
Just another version of Atlantis and like most others it is very unlikely or ... unbelievable.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
The main work was to create the height field. This was done by combineing a Fractint julia fractal with a GForge heightfield using GForge's RMAG command and tweaking the whole thing using the TWIST command and the same GForge height field as a control matrix. The whole thing was textured using slope dependent textures. Plants, buildings and dragon statues were placed on the height field using the Genesis Toolkit. The female figure was made with Poser and converted to a POV-Ray mesh with uv-coordinates using Warmann's Poser OBJ to POV converter. A Poser texture map was applied as pigment map for the figure's face and skin, all other objects attached to the figure use plain POV-Ray texturing.

Some objects made by other people have been used:
- The boat is a slightly modified version of Mick Hazelgrove's clinker boat
  (see section newsgroup povray.binaries.scene-files on the POV-Ray server)
- The female figure is Jesse L. Bond's "Slave Leia" figure
  (see www.poserforum.com)
- The dragon is from 3D Cafe (tm). No informtion about the author is given.

Figure, dragon and texture map are not included in the ZIP archive because the corresponding files are huge (>12MB for the figure!)