TITLE: Aerial View
NAME: Alan Whitehead
COUNTRY: Scotland
EMAIL: alan.whitehead@totalise.co.uk
WEBPAGE: http://www.alanwhitehead.co.uk
TOPIC: The City
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: abwaeria.jpg
ZIPFILE: abwaeria.zip
RENDERER USED: 

        Povray 3.1g


TOOLS USED: 

        Paintshop Pro 6 for heightfields of landmarks, Moray 3.2


RENDER TIME: 
    6 minutes


HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium II 350MHz with 128Mb RAM



IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

        An aerial view of a city.  The image was inspired by aerial and
satellite photographs of UK cities in a recent newspaper.  



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The image is made up from various heightfields.

BuildingHF.pov - buildings heightfield generator
BuildingIM.pov - buildings imagemap generator
Roads_etc.png   - heightfield created in Paintshop Pro to use as a mask against
the            BuildingHF.png and as a template for other heightfields

BuildingHF.png and Roads etc.png were combined within Paintshop Pro using the
mask facility to produce MapHF.png, the main city heightfield.

Roads_etc.png was used as a template within Paintshop Pro to produce;
        Roads_only.png - road heightfield
        Green.png      - park and greenbelt heightfield
        River.png      - river heightfield

Moray was used to combine all the components.
        abwaerial.mdl - Moray file
        abwaerial.pov - POV scene file from Moray
        abwaerial.inc - Include file from Moray

JPG was conversion done in Paintshop Pro.

Note: The pathnames to the .png files used in abwaerial.pov and abwaerial.inc
are as specified by Moray and should be edited as necessary if regenerating the
image.