EMAIL: irtc_mail@yahoo.co.uk NAME: Richard Webster TOPIC: Old Technology COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Blank Canvas COUNTRY: England WEBPAGE: None RENDERER USED: povray 3.5 TOOLS USED: PaintShop Pro for jpeg conversion RENDER TIME: 4.5 hours HARDWARE USED: AMD Duron 1.1GHz 128MB IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Old rendering technology being used to try to solve the old problem of capturing old textures. Still an unsolved problem today. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The image was rendered at 1024x768 with anti-aliasing. The stone walls, millstone, foreground water, grass, shrubs, trees, distant hills and the artist are all isosurfaces. The rest of the objects are built from primitives. The river is defined by a path along the ground. This path is used to dig out the river from the ground plane and place the grass and trees along the river bank. The full source is in the zip file.