TITLE: hllandmrk

NAME: Henk Lasschuit
COUNTRY: The Netherlands

EMAIL: henklass@dds.nl
WEBPAGE: http://huizen.dds.nl/~henklass

TOPIC: Landmarks
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT
JPGFILE: hllndmrk.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1


TOOLS USED: 
    Graphic Converter 2.6 (for conversion only)


RENDER TIME: 
    1 hour, 36 minutes, 37 seconds


HARDWARE USED: 
    Apple Macintosh G3/300


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Once again it's Schiermonnikoog, the most beautiful island in the world.
And this time it really is. We see the three most important and famous
landmarks of the island. In the distance there are the two lighthouses. The
elder, grey one is currently in use as a watertower. The scene is seen from
the bunker De Wassermann.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

I started with modelling a tree. When I tried to render a row of 50 trees,
it appeared to take up so much time and computer memory that I had to find
something else. After all, there are thousands of trees in this image.
I decided to use very simple shapes for the trees and the bushes (cones and
spheres). With some randomly varying of size, x- and z-position, normal and
color I find the result quite satisfactory.
The lighthouses and the bunker are simple CSG's. If you know the place,
you'll find I've been messing with the details, but the overall impression
is allright, I think.

There's still a problem with my Mac-zipfile. Mail me if you're interested
in the sourcecode.