EMAIL: veijo.vilva@animal.helsinki.fi NAME: Veijo Vilva TOPIC: Spectacular Landscapes COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT TITLE: Arietta, C Major COUNTRY: Finland WEBPAGE: http://www.animal.helsinki.fi/people/vilva/ RENDERER USED: povray 3.1g TOOLS USED: gforge, lua RENDER TIME: 1h 56min HARDWARE USED: Athlon 1GHz IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This mindscape is another exploration of the artistic possibilities of scripted ray-tracing, i.e. an attempt to do something which would be quite tedious, difficult or even impossible with other means. The name refers to a part of Beethoven's last piano sonata op. 111. This image tries to capture some of the feelings the Arietta evokes in my mind after the dark beginning of the sonata, the first bars are like first rays of sun after a long night in a dark valley, really the most spectacular landscape after a time with none. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The POV script for the foreground "terrain" was generated with a lua script from a 128x128 pgm file generated with gforge. Both some regular (y) mods and random (x,z) perturbations were added. The harpsichord is an old friend. The background eye photo with some ray-traced complements was transformed with a transparent bozo height field. A higher resolution version is available at my gallery page http://www.animal.helsinki.fi/people/vilva/gallery/