TITLE: Ben Franklin's Kite
NAME: Kyle Stamper + Zeger Knaepen + Philippe Gibone
COUNTRY: USA + Belgium + France
EMAIL: joekyle@geocities.com + zeger_knaepen@hotmail.com +
TOPIC: History
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: franklin.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    PovRay 3.1e

TOOLS USED: 
    HLA, Moray, 3dWin

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

When Benjamin Franklin flew his kite in 1752, he wanted to 
know if lightning was electricity. He risked his life to 
find out that it is.  We wanted to recapture that stormy
night that led to the discovery of the power source that 
reshaped and improved our world in so many ways.                

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Philippe modelled and textured the clocktower while Kyle 
made a kite, a hand (the original point of view was as seen
from Franklin's eyes) and the lightning. Zeger added a tree 
and a sky, but because he wasn't happy with the result, he 
repositioned all the objects, added some height_fields (made
in HLA), used a different tree macro(and placed more trees), 
improved the kite and clocktower, and added Franklin.  Zeger
began to work on this new scene-setup about 1 week before 
we had to submit it.

Kyle: kite, lightning, ideas, original scene-setup, first 
test-renders

Philippe: clocktowerdesign and -modelling, ideas

Zeger: background (landscape, sky and trees), Franklin, 
scene-setup, ideas, final render

May the best win.

   The GUMP (Grand Unified Modelling Project)