TITLE: Snowman
NAME: Sean Day
COUNTRY: UK
EMAIL: s.day@uel.ac.uk
TOPIC: Fire and Ice
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: snowman.jpg
ZIPFILE: snowman.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Megapov 1.2

TOOLS USED: 
    Arbaro

RENDER TIME: 
    10 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    P4 2.8Ghz 1GB Ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Snow for ice and the sunset to represent the fire.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Started with the snowman which is made up of 3 isosurfaces to see if I could get
a semi-realistic snow texture. Once I was happy with the texture I added the
landscape which is made up of 3 height fields rotated slightly on the x plane
to hide the edges. 
Next I added the main tree (created with arbaro) and added the Sun, this uses
megapov's glow feature and an emitting media. 
I decided to write my own macro to add snow to the tree (although I know there
are already several out there). 
Next I added the background trees and snow on these (which was taking up too
much memory so I replaced this with a slope_map texture (didn't even know what
this did until it was suggested to me by Tim Nikias.. Thanks.)
The fence is created with another macro (not a very good one) and snow added.