TITLE: City of the Balloon People
NAME: Tom Melly
COUNTRY: UK
EMAIL: tom@tomandlu.force9.co.uk
WEBPAGE: http://www.tomandlu.force9.co.uk/
TOPIC: Cities
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: tmcity.jpg
ZIPFILE: tmcity.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    MEGAPOV 3.1g.wmp.0.4 (Win95)

TOOLS USED: 
    Leveller, PSP

RENDER TIME: 
    5 hours, 12 mins, 39 secs

HARDWARE USED: 
    P100 64mb


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Winter is over, and the Balloonist's gather at their city to celebrate the
coming of Spring. Or something.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Some trace macros for positioning the snow in the foreground and the individual
buildings of the city, with some help from Reorient macro.
The buildings themselves are all csg.
The far snow texture is handled with a slope texture map.
The balloon is a distorted sphere, rotated, with an image map for the netting.
The basket is woven splines.
The smaller balloons are simpler versions of the same.
The figure is generated with blob_man.inc. by Peter Houston,
houston.graphics@iname.com, http://welcome.to/HoustonGraphics. The file is not
included, so you will need to get hold of a copy from Peter's website if you
want to render the full scene.
The flags and mountains are hfs, created in Leveller.
The sky and clouds a series of inverted spheres with maps applied.