TITLE: Crop Circle
NAME: Tim Attwood
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: TimothyEA@comcast.net
TOPIC: Mystery
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: cropcirc.jpg
ZIPFILE: cropcirc.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-ray 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    PSP

RENDER TIME: 


HARDWARE USED: 
    Athalon 1.2G 512M

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

A simple crop circle in a field, a farm building is nearby, and the moon 
shines thru the woods in the background.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

This image was created by hand in POV-ray SDL.  The crop is placed with macros
in grids and rings, with a random variance to break up the uniformity. The 
stalks themselves are cone-like shapes bent slightly (with Chris Colefax's 
bend include)  then rotated randomly. In the circle the stalks are a CSG 
shape, every other row clockwise and counter-clockwise, forming the base of 
the actual crop circle.  The fence is made of isosurfaces, they are not 
perfectly straight.  The farmhouse is a HF with an image map, and the woods in
the background are mostly not visible, but are another image map, the moon is 
a high ambient sphere, and the fog and focal blur lend a spooky air to 
the scene.

