TITLE: Ravine
NAME: John
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: jhu@sdf.lonestar.org
TOPIC: Forces of Nature
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: ravine.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    heightfield lab, poser 4.0, poseray, gimp

RENDER TIME: 
    ~10 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    duron 1.6

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

"So the wife and kid want to the state park. Sure we haven't gone in a while so
it would make a nice weekend excursion. These ravines don't form overnight. And
yet it only takes a few hours to walk through this particular path. Of course
the thing I forgot about from last time was that I get to carry everything:
snacks, water, camera, etc. Don't they know I have a family history of heart
attacks? If anything, they should be carrying some of this stuff. Oh well. I'm
healthy, for now. Hmmm... what're they pointing at? Looks like a couple of
birds flying around to me. Perhaps I'm missing something? What'd you say dear?
Get the camera? You think they might be some rare bird whose name I can't even
pronounce?"

And so goes another family outing. Thankfully, not my family.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The walls and ground are heightfields made with height field lab. The wall
texture was made using the gimp. There are several rocks which are just
isosurfaces. The people are poser models and exported using poseray. The birds
are a union of spheres. On close-up, they don't even look close to bird-like.
Fortunately, they're too far away to see any detail. Whew!