EMAIL: helene.dumur@free.fr
NAME: Helene Dumur
TOPIC: Desert
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: 
COUNTRY: France
WEBPAGE: http://helene.dumur.free.fr/
RENDERER USED: Pov-Ray 3.5
TOOLS USED: nothing else ! 
RENDER TIME:  48 minutes
HARDWARE USED: Athlon 1200 - Linux Red Hat 7.2

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
When I think about "desert", I think at the Sonoran Desert, in the south of Arizona, a wonderful place. There, you can find the incredible saguaros, young ones without arms, olders whith strange arms, you can find too occotillos, and opuntias. In this picture, somebody is buried in the earth and the sand. Perhaps he was died of thirst, because you can see his water bottle and his mug not far from his grave. Tucson was too far to be reached ! Nobody of course, in this land, only a little red snake wandering...


For the french speaking people..
Quand je pense a un desert, je vois immediatement le Sonoran Desert, dans le sud de l'Arizona, un endroit extraordinaire. La, on trouve ces incroyables saguaros, les plus jeunes sans bras, les plus vieux avec d'etranges bras. On trouve aussi des occotillos, et des opuntias. Sur cette image, quelqu'un est enterre dans le sable. Sans doute est-il mort de soif, puisque on peut voir sa gourde et son quart tout pres de sa tombe. Tucson etait trop loin pour qu'il y parvienne ! Il n'y a personne à cet endroit, seulement un petit serpent rouge qui se promène...


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

First, a lot of thanks to my friend Antoine, who gives me his saguaros with arms, because I did'nt know how to make that.
Most of the ground is made with isosurfaces, because it is more realistic, the Sonoran Desert is not like the Sahara, with regular sand dunes.. The mountains, in the background are made with a hight-field, and the shrubs and tree have needed the well known macro "maketree" from Gilles Tran.
The little yellow flowers in the left corner come from an old script written for POV-Ray 3.1.
I think that there is nothing very difficult to do in this modest picture...


For the french speaking people..

D'abord, un grand merci à mon ami Antoine, qui m'a donne son script de saguaros avec bras, parce que sinon, je n'aurais jamais su les faire..
La plus grande partie du sol a ete faite avec des isosurfaces, parce que c'est plus realiste. Le Sonoran desert ne ressemble pas au Sahara avec ses dunes de sable regulieres. Les montagnes du fond sont faites avec un hight-field, et les arbustes proviennent de la celebre macro "maketree" de Gilles Tran.
Les petites fleurs jaunes du coin gauche sont issues d'un ancien script utilise dans la version 3.1 de POV.
Je pense qu'il n'y a rien d'autre de bien complique sur cette modeste image.


And, of course, I apologize for my poor english, it's not my natural language, you have yet noticed that !!