TITLE: ShatterIsles
NAME: Aakin N. Patel
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
EMAIL: aakin-irtc@aakin.net
WEBPAGE: http://www.aakin.net
TOPIC: The Wilderness
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: shatter.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1g

TOOLS USED: 
    None

RENDER TIME: 
    6 Min 27 Seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    P II 266

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

        I've been trying to enter something into the IRTC for a while, but never
came
        up with anything that I've been satisfied with. Most of what I render is

        landscapes, which didn't fit in too well with previous themes. I
figured
        I ought to be able to do something for this one, though.
         When I read "Something untouched by man", the sci-fi geek in me kicked
in and
        translated "Alien Planet". I'd been trying to figure out how to make
floating
        islands for a while, anyways, so I tried to do something around that.
Basically,
        I was looking for an image with a landscape that you wouldn't see at all
on earth,
        with some sort of indication of life, yet still conveying bleakness and
emptiness.
        I like the empty floating islands for that reason. It was too bleak with
just them,
        though, which is why I added the birds-like thingies.
         Oh, and I like green, hence the sky (and everything else).

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

        Done completely in Povray.
        I made the islands by inverting a hieght-field below itself.
        Everything else is pretty much standard. The sky is a standard included
skyfield, somewhat
        modified. I used basic shapes to put together the birds.
        I had to use some anti-aliasing so that the bird's wings, which are
fairly thin, would
        show up right in the distance. That's also why I used the 1024x768
instead of 800x600 
        resolution.
        Feel free to email me if have any other questions or are interested in
the source.