TITLE: 19th Century Ruins
NAME: Bob Franke
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: bobfranke@halcyon.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/bob_franke/pov/pov.htm
TOPIC: Ruins
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: 19thcen.jpg
ZIPFILE: 19thcen.zip
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1g for Windows 95/98/NT
TOOLS USED: Chris Colefax's Object Bender, Jaime Vives 
Piqueres Cloud Macro, Gilles Tran's grass macros, Lview Pro 
for jpeg conversion and copyright and the POV editor
RENDER TIME: 7hr 10min
HARDWARE USED: generic Pentium-III w/ 256 MB RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
Much to everyone's delight my description is short this time.  
This is simply a 19th century barn and wagon in a large field 
of grass.  This scene is commonly seen all across the U.S.  
Well, maybe not the wagon.  Most of the ones, that have that 
have survived, have been taken by the antique hunters and 
dealers.  By world standards, our country is pretty young and 
most of the ruins are recent.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
The barn is modeled from a Joseph Scaylea photograph.  Nested 
loops were use to randomly put the shingles and siding in 
place.  Chris Colefax's Object Bender was used to create the 
bent and sagging effect.

I used Jaime Vives Piqueres brilliantly simple "stacked 
planes of clouds" trick to create the sky.  I just don't see 
why someone didn't come up with this idea years ago.

The wagon is all simple CSG.  I created wood grain bump maps 
for the wagon wood and one for the wheels.  I use a silver 
color to give the effect of old sun-bleached wood.  Also 
there are a few patches of green to suggest moss.

I have to thank Gilles Tran for his grass macros. I pretty 
much used one of his examples, but fiddled with the numbers 
and turned the blades up side down.

There is a slight ground fog to create the haze at the 
horizon.

The distant tree line is made with a single tree made with a 
bunch of spheres.  This tree?, was randomly rotated and 
placed several times to create the effect.

Well, that's about it.  The height field for the distant 
hills, some bump maps and a grass include file were not 
included in the zip file.  If you want them, just email me.