TITLE: Back Mountain Road NAME: Lamere Family COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: lamere@speakeasy.org TOPIC: Winter COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: bmr.jpg ZIPFILE: bmr.zip RENDERER USED: Povray 3.1 TOOLS USED: Gimp for JPEG creation Spline Tree by Andrew Clinton at http://povplace.addr.com/ RENDER TIME: 4 Hours 3 minutes HARDWARE USED: 1.4 GHz P4, RH 7.2 Linux IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A family effort by Paul(42), Chris(12), Cari(11), Liz(10) and Jennie(7). This is our second IRTC entry. We wanted to create an image that could be considered 'artistic' this round, one that would be appealing if we hung it on the wall. This is a winter scene, reminiscent of a place that we used to live, Back Mountain Road, Goffstown NH. The hills are called the Uncannoonuc Mountains. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Thanks to Andrew Clinton for his fine Splinetree macro. His trees really make the image. Fence is simple CFG with some looping and randomness thrown in. For those from more temperate climes, snow fences really are this funny red color, by the way. The Hills/Mountains were created with a single lathe object that was scaled rotated to make all non-flat ground. Tire tracks are just long boxes subtracted from the snow. Mailboxes are simple CFG. We used a sky by Norbert Kern (miracle.jpg) as a starting point for this sky. We tried some radiosity, but felt the image was too washed out, so we went back to the sharper but less realistic image. There are some image artifacts (stray pixels) left by Povray in the sky and left mountain. We are not sure what caused this. Any ideas?