TITLE: Frozen Moment
NAME: Richard Webster
COUNTRY: England
EMAIL: irtc_mail@yahoo.co.uk
WEBPAGE: None
TOPIC: Frozen Moment
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: frozen.jpg
ZIPFILE: frozen.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    povray 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    PaintShop Pro for image maps and jpeg conversion

RENDER TIME: 
    5.5 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    AMD Duron 1.1GHz 128MB


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


 F!#!#@!!!


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


 The main elements are:

 - Scene

   The visible lights in the car park are not light sources. The
   exterior lighting is from a large 4x4 area light placed below
   ground level, with the ground set to be non shadow casting. This
   is mad but it gave the right look.

   The night sky uses the povray starfield, lots of fog and a
   transparent cloud pattern.

 - Buildings

   The buildings are made from repeating units positioned using loops.
   The units are made from boxes and polygons.

 - Car park

   The car park lights are cylinder & sphere models. The surface and
   the car are image maps.

 - Keyboard

   A round-edged box with a heightfield for the keys

 - Glass

   The glass shards are created to a random shape as small closed
   meshes, then placed along various paths with their size and
   rotation controlled by their position along their path.

 - Interior

   The monitor is two round-edged boxes with an image map for the
   screen.

 The full source is in the zip file.