EMAIL:     jd@surveyor.in-berlin.de
NAME:      Jens Dengler
TOPIC:     Ruins
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE:     village.jpg - a drowned village
COUNTRY:   Germany
WEBPAGE:   http://www.in-berlin.de/User/jd/

RENDERER USED: povray 3.1g
TOOLS USED: GIMP (height map) treegen (trees) GIMP (tga -> jpg)
RENDER TIME: <4h
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133MHz 32MB Linux 2.2

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
A flooded landscape with grey skies and dead trees.
A drowned, imaginary village with a romanic church.
Maybe the ruins of a near future.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
When trying to use the into the sources included PoV-Ray file "village.pov"
one will notice, that there is something missing: the trees. I have
included the very short hack of a random (naked) tree generator. I dunno,
if there is already one around, I have never looked for it. I'd wanted to
write it for my own. I thought it would be difficult, but it was somewhat
simple when using some restrictions about the number of branches.
The program can create very bushy and very stoopid looking trees when
fiddling with the parameter of iterations and leafs.
Also included is the landscape map "village.png" because the image and the
objects are fine tuned to it. This height map was created with GIMP with
the normal scripts, only some details like the down levelling of the border
was done by hand.  To generate a similar image like the one above it is
necessary to create four trees. For this, "treegen.c" has to be compiled
and ran 4 times, putting the output of "treegen" into 4 files called
"tree1.pov", "tree2.pov"... One has to rename the objects within these
files, that is Tree to Tree1, Tree2..., tree to tree1, tree2... and
treefoot to treefoot1, treefoot2... If a tree is one of the more funny
looking results of treegen, you might try running treegen again for this
tree. Even the trees in the presented image are not the best possible,
possibly.
The treefiles will have a size mostly bigger than the allowed file size
for the JPEG. If they are ready and prepared, the remaining job is to
do a "povray +A0.3 +W800 +H600 +V -I village.pov" and make a big coffee
break.
Although I think the image looks nice, I'm sure that there will be better
ones. I submit this picture only for the olympic idea... and because I'd
lots of time, still.