TITLE: The last balloon NAME: Txemi Jendrix (J. M. Gonzalez-Pinto) COUNTRY: Spain EMAIL: tji@euskalnet.net TOPIC: Landmarks COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: hito.jpg RENDERER USED: Persistence of vision for Windows 3.1 TOOLS USED: sPatch 1.51, PovRay Editor, TextureView, Leveller, lnsfects.inc and Compress mesh macro file by Chris Colefax, Picture Publisher 5.0. RENDER TIME: Time for parse: 1' 04" Time for trace: 46' 20" Total time: 47' 24" HARDWARE USED: Pentium 100 Mhz with 32Mb Ram. IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The only high place in all the planet was elected by the people of Dor as their home. None knows how many lives were wasted to make the pyramid-city came true. Even though the people of Dor have spread themselves all around the planet, they have to go to the pyramid- city at least once in their lives. That's what they call "the promise". Centuries ago, they had to climb the mountain, but, as happens everywhere, times are changing and today they use the balloon. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THE IMAGE WAS CREATED: The scene was composed as it follows: A skysphere for the sky with a layered pigment. Another big sphere for include more clouds. A plane with the same texture of clouds, located in the middle of the mountain. The mountain is a heightfield made with leveller with a layered texture. The pyramid-city is a superellipsoid half buried in the mountain with a layered texture. The Light was made with Lnsefcts.inc by Chris Colefax. The ground is a disc with a layered texture. The balloon was made with this elements: A white sphere A little ship made with sPatch with a layered texture The web that surrounds the white sphere was made using the compressed mesh macro file by Chris Colefax applied to a sphere. Finally The brightness and contrast were adjusted with Picture publisher and the text was added That's all, folks. Txemi Jendrix Inspiriens '99