TITLE: Siege
NAME: Christophe BOUFFARTIGUE
COUNTRY: France
EMAIL: tofbouf@free.fr
WEBPAGE: http://tofbouf.free.fr/

TOPIC: Fortress
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: cbfort.jpg
ZIPFILE: cbfort.zip
RENDERER USED: 

        POVMan 0.71.4


TOOLS USED: 

        Poser4
        OBJuvPOV (by Cliff Bowman)
        The Gimp (jpeg conversion)


RENDER TIME: 

        > 73h
        (note to myself: never use again radiosity AND isosurfaces....)


HARDWARE USED: 

        Duron 600MHz 384 Mo RAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

        Probably the fortress the most difficult to take. It's most effective
defensive weapon: indifference...


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

        For this round, I had difficulties to find an interesting subject. I'm
not very fond of architecture, and I didn't want to make a "classic" fortress.
As the time went, the probability I would not enter this round was greater and
greater (plus I started some others images for myself....)

        One of these images involved a test of isosurfaces with radiosity, and I
came with iso-cylinders on a calm sea under a procedural green sky... and a
lonely woman on top of a cylinder... and then, I decided to enter the IRTC once
more !!!! But the time was short (less than 10 days, including a 2-days trip in
Italia for my job).

        So, the mines were borrowed from an entry of the Sea round (Gerard
Mansoif, don't remember the title of the pic), with my own textures. They were
placed randomly around the woman's cylinder, and a second iso-cylinder was
placed by hand, with a man on top, staring with envy in the direction of the
woman... and that's all.

        I wanted to use an isosurface for the sea, but the render time was
already too long (finished on april the 30th...) Except poser models, the POV
source is given, and I would like to thank Gilles Tran for convincing me to
enter this round.