EMAIL: Johannes.Ewers@t-online.de
NAME: Johannes Ewers
TOPIC: ruins
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: 20th Century Ruin
COUNTRY: Germany
WEBPAGE: not yet
RENDERER USED: povray 3.1
TOOLS USED: Moray 3.2,  Photoshop 4 used for gamma correction and hightfields
RENDER TIME: 21 min
HARDWARE USED: Celeron 433, 128 MB
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
Every century leaves its ruins behind. The biggest ruins of the last century are oil drilling platforms in the open sea. Unfortunately , you need a ship or sailing boat to visit these ruins.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
All modeling was done with Moray 3.2. The tool was especially useful for handling complex, hierarchical structured objects. Highly recommended!
The sea surface uses a hightfield as basis. The hightfield construction (Photoshop) started  with a strip pattern. Several distortion filters (and a lot of experiments) were used to create a wave like structure. It is still a long way to realistic waves!
The lens flare effect was created with the include file of Nathan Kopp.