EMAIL: jinx@spodbox.fsnet.co.uk
NAME: Nigel Briggs
TOPIC: Loneliness
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: The Piper
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
WEBPAGE: http://mudhole.spodnet.uk.com/~jinx/
REDNERER USED: PoV-Ray for Windows v3.5
TOOLS USED: PoV-Ray
RENDER TIME: 24 Hours 10 Minutes
HARDWARE USED: P3 850Mhz / 512Mb RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
On Bodmin Moor, in Cornwall (England), there stands a lone rock known
as "The Piper".
It is said to be the form of a Piper who displeased a local witch and
was turned to stone for his trouble.
There is nothing in any direction for over a mile, and when the low
cloud drifts in over the moor, then the Piper must be the loneliest
rock on earth.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
The short version:
I messed around with the (new) isosurface object...

The long version:
The Rock itself is just a sphere function added to a multi-fractal noise function.

The Grass is just a plane (where y=0) with a different noise function
added in, that has been exaggerated in height.

Add in some Fog and a shadowless light-source, and that's it.