EMAIL:lowellr@globaldialog.com
NAME:Robert Lowell
TOPIC: UnBelieveable
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE:RoadTrip
COUNTRY:USA
WEBPAGE:
RENDERER USED:PovRay 3.1
TOOLS USED:
RENDER TIME: 2 hr. 36 min.
HARDWARE USED:450  P2 384 MEG  MEMORY
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Trip Start  Wisconson
Trip End    Florida
Trip Distance 1145
Total time 8 hrs. 44 min including Gas/Pit stops 
Do the mph math.
Catagory portion is believe it or not.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
The Saab parts are all csg with the exception of the steering wheel emblem. 
This took the longest time, is not completly done and I will probably still
be working on it for several months yet.

The trees are random unions of SOR parts. The grass/dirt area is a set uo height 
fields. Media for the early morning mist didn't work at all. ( or maybe it would
have. I just did not have time to tolerate a rendering time of about 1 line per hr.)
I used fog instead.

I haven't entered this competition since sometime last fall, right before my 166 
developed this strange hole in the motherboard and kept crashing alot.
I finally get a new machine built - 450 p2 with 384 meg memory (obsolete already )
and I figure for once I going to get the pics almost rendered before I think them up.
Quess again.
With the old "slow" 166 I was used to a render time of 2-3 days for the final on
detailed pictures and around 24 hrs on a "normal" picture.
The first "final" I tried on this machine did 8 lines in 12 hr. and I was not happy.
The second attempt using the fog was much faster almost verging on impressive but
I actually wanted to see the headlights disapearing into the mist which does not 
happen with the fog command.