TITLE: Aerial View
NAME: Alan Whitehead
TOPIC: The City
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
COUNTRY: Scotland
WEBPAGE: http://www.alanwhitehead.co.uk
EMAIL: alan.whitehead@totalise.co.uk
JPGFILE: abwaview.jpg
ZIPFILE: abwaview.zip

RENDERER USED: 
	Povray 3.1g

TOOLS USED: 
	Paintshop Pro 6 for heightfields of landmarks, Moray 3.2

RENDER TIME: 6 minutes

HARDWARE USED: Pentium II 350MHz with 128Mb RAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
	An aerial view of a city.  The image was inspired by aerial and satellite photographs of UK cities in a recent newspaper. 	


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
The image is made up from various heightfields.

BuildingHF.pov - buildings heightfield generator
BuildingIM.pov - buildings imagemap generator
Roads_etc.png   - heightfield created in Paintshop Pro to use as a mask against the			  BuildingHF.png and as a template for other heightfields

BuildingHF.png and Roads etc.png were combined within Paintshop Pro using the mask facility to produce MapHF.png, the main city heightfield.

Roads_etc.png was used as a template within Paintshop Pro to produce;
	Roads_only.png - road heightfield
	Green.png      - park and greenbelt heightfield
	River.png      - river heightfield

Moray was used to combine all the components.
	abwaerial.mdl	- Moray file
	abwaerial.pov	- POV scene file from Moray
	abwaerial.inc	- Include file from Moray

JPG was conversion done in Paintshop Pro.

Note: The pathnames to the .png files used in abwaerial.pov and abwaerial.inc are as specified by Moray and should be edited as necessary if regenerating the image.