TITLE: Magic Landscape
NAME: Alexander Artemenko
COUNTRY: Russian Federation
EMAIL: art@cps.tver.ru
WEBPAGE: none
TOPIC: Spectacular Landscapes
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: m_land.jpg
ZIPFILE: m_land.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    HamaPatch, The Gimp

RENDER TIME: 
    Real 63 hours 56 minutes (CPU time 51 hours 52 minutes)

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 4 1600 (256 Mb)


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


The main object in this scene is a huge tree with giant roots. This tree
like a mountain, and two roots make a canyon. To sign on the scale of this
elements of the scene I make small village, river and the bridge, Magic
atmosphere transfer with turbulenced ground fog, and fog above the river.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


All objects except houses, windmill, bridge and grass were made with
HamaPatch as spline patches and then imported to POV-Ray.

Giant tree and hills was formed with simple extruding of the splines.
Houses and windmill are simple CSG objects.
Grass was make as cones (about 50000), randomly placed on the terrain. For
growing the grass and controlling it's height I've use spline patch with
dimensions similar to all terrain.

For make up the bridge, I've used splines to, but only for placing each
part of the bridge.

Focal blur and radiocity was used to make image more realistic (especialy
grass at fron plan).

You can find all scripts and HamaPatch file in zip archive (no imagemaps
were used).

P.S. - sorry for my ugly english, but I hope that you like my image indeed!