EMAIL: iarmstrong@cix.compulink.co.uk
NAME: Ian Armstrong
TOPIC: Flight
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.0 for Windows
TOOLS USED: Gforge, PSP4.1
RENDER TIME: 3h 7m
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 120
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

A Hawker Hart, one of the prettiest of pre-war biplanes, landing at
Netheravon airfield, Wiltshire, England in October 1931.

This image contains some truth and some artistic licence:  J9941 did actually
serve with No. 57 Bomber Squadron of the RAF at Netheravon in 1931, but
the buildings are pure guesswork.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

Created entirely by hand for Povray3, except for the trees & hills.

Mainly CSG with the usual primitives, plus some Bezier patches for the
doubly curved areas around the nose and for the main wings.

The spinning prop is a thin cylinder with a radial colour map from black to
clear (transmit=1).

The pilots are a bit of a cop-out, being simply faceless blobs which
only look OK from the back.


All image maps were drawn in PaintShopPro 4.1.

The hills were done as a heightfield using Gforge by John Beale
(http://www.best.com/~beale)

The trees were done using the Pov3 Tree include file from Paul T.Dawson
(http://www.voicenet.com/~ptdawson)

