TITLE: MyCity
NAME: rjchase
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: jchase1024@aol.com
WEBPAGE: none
TOPIC: RUINS
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: mycity.jpg
ZIPFILE: mycity.zip
RENDERER USED:
Povray 3.1
TOOLS USED:
Moray, CityGen, WinBlob for clouds , TerrainMaker, PSPro
RENDER TIME:
800 by 600 by 24 at 100 pps average...about 1.9 hours.
HARDWARE USED:
486 133 by 16, and 1 meg Video. Hardware of choice for
cave dwellers. 320 by 240 looks a bit 'impressionist on canvas' here.
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
My kind of town...circa 9 00 AM, 2124 AD.
Mt. Rainier, 70 miles from downtown Seattle, has awakened. One-third of
western Washington is covered in mud and ash to a depth of as much as
500 feet.
Archeologists - and scavengers - of the future are likely to uncover
petrified paper latte-cups, a refrigerator magnet, as well as some
ancient valuable stock options near Redmond.
"Hey, looky heer! Ah foun' me some ol' bones 'n stuff!"
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
// Persistance of Vision Raytracer V3.1
// World definition file.
// - This project started as an attempt to create realistic clouds.
ROLL CREDITS
// - Parts of this file were generated for POVRay V3.1
// By Moray V3.1 For Windows (c) 1991-1998 Lutz + Kretzschmar
//
// - The city (MYCIT2.INC) was generated using FILECITY By Chris Colefax
//
// -'MtRain01' 8-bit .RAW courtesy of Terragen and my carple tunnel.
// -'MtRain01' 8-bit .RAW to .GIF conversion courtesy of Paint Shop Pro.
// - NOTE: TerraGen 8-bit raw files are 256 greyscale.
// - Cloud4 and Cloud9 created using Blob Sculptor for Windows.
// - "Lightning" created using Fractint v.19.5.
// - The entire visual symphony of .POV and .INC files has been
// subsequently arranged and ASCII tweeked hundreds of times -
// fubar courtesy of rjchase and the CODEMAX editor in POVWin3.1
ACTION!
// - Using TerraGen to design a cloud-like object 10/16/99 no good.
// - Using Blob Sculptor to create clouds shapes, imported to MORAY,
// and given an interior media. - 10/24/99
//
// - Three types of cloud ojects are now used: Cloud9 is a multi-layer
// textured blob; Cloud4 is a hollow blobject with a transparent
// surface, filled with isotropic scattered particles; Cone_Cloud is
// a union of cone objects each with a layered cloud texture. 10/29/99
//
// - Added Cloud7_Blb (same mat as Cloud9_Blb); hides phony Cone_Cloud.
// - Working on fractal lightning-on-a-disc 11/99. A fractal bitmap on
// a disc - background transparent. Fair success with MyCity8a.
// - Severly "truncating" the Cone_Cloud union. Also, Thin_Glass is a
// good texture in the wrong scene. The code remains in MyCitxt9.inc
// for public perusal.
//
// - You know, I could really go for a good 3D Cloud modeler right now.
// ...and a salad!
// - Added image_map Broken_Glass. Windows blown out of needle. 1/11/00
// - Attempts to use MegaPOV's motion_blur to soften Cloud7_Blb failed.
// Increasing focal-blur aperture instead. 1/12/00
// - Attempting to create cirrus cloud plane with Mycity9d.pov.
// TGA image created with MRY Cloud material on plane z normal +z cam.
// TGA image was motion blurred in PSP, and saved as a .GIF
// with color range 0 as transparent. not included - failed kiss.
// - Better solution to the cirrus problem is to use bezier patches with
// semi-transparent Bozo color maps (after freekin' all!) The patches are
// declared in MyCity.inc as Cloud_Plane1 Cloud_Plane2. 1/30/00
//
// - Note: The "space needle" was modeled from a souvenir kitchen
// magnet purchased at a tourist trap in Pioneer Square, buried just
// beneath 400 feet of volcanic sludge, at far right in this view.
//
- About the author: The artist currently known as rjchase is a newbie to
raytracing, having just started with the '386 DOS command-line interface of
POV-Ray version 2.x and a DOS editor (XTree) in 1996. He is a POV-Ray hobbyist
living somewhere under 22 feet of ash, just right of center in this view.
2/28/00