EMAIL: J.A.Bremer@twi.tudelft.nl NAME: Johan Bremer TOPIC: City COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Looking Up COUNTRY: The Netherlands WEBPAGE: http://sh55k01.jvb.tudelft.nl RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1g RENDER TIME: 5 min 43 sec HARDWARE USED: PIII 450 Mhz w. 128 Mb and my new 19" Iiyama monitor! ;) IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Last summer, before I visited New York for the first time, I read in a book that you'd better not walk around there looking up to the buildings. Because if you do you could just as well wear a shirt saying "I'm a distracted tourist, Please rob me!" But when I got there, the gigantically high buildings were so impressive that I couldn't resist looking up while walking around there... Makes you lose all sense of height. The picture also has some hidden meaning about being trapped in the city, looking at the birds (yes those are birds) who are free above it, but I'd better not start about that... DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Well, actually this is the first image I created myself using povray. I only re-rendered some of the previous winners of the IRTC. So it's all very basic I'm afraid. The buildings are endless repetitions of darkblue boxes with chrome boxes inside them. The birds consist of a shamefully simpel combination of a circle with a disc. Luckily they are too small to notice this. The sun is a bright yellow light pointed at the sky, and I added some smoke which is a simple triangle with clouds on it...