TITLE: "Interdisciplinary symposium for the Re- Creation of the Tree"
NAME: Greg M. Johnson
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: gregj56590@aol.com
WEBPAGE: None yet
TOPIC: Still Images
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: irct.jpg
ZIPFILE: irct.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.02 watcom32

TOOLS USED: 
    Povray, CorelDraw7, Sonya Robert's "TREES.INC", textures from
"POVLAB.INC"

RENDER TIME: 
    54m 01s

HARDWARE USED: 
    Aptiva C9E, 200 MHz Pentium

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

  "Earth's ecosystem...
   A planet barely alive.
   We have the technology.
   We can rebuild it.
   Better. Faster. Stronger."

After the extinction of the tree, scientists hold a symposium to explore
bringing trees back to life by a technology called "rendering."
This image was inspired by a comment made about my last entry to the IRTC.
Someone suggested that I use a canned ".INC" file to create a tree or bush
instead of making my own crappy one. I thought that an interesting tie into the
"Nature" theme would be a sort of IRTC-like competition between bungling
scientists to re-invent the tree.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Povray was used to create all objects.
The sign was created as a GIF with Corel Draw7.
Sonya Robert's "trees.inc" is used in the center chamber. I didn't want to turn
my entry into either a sheepish tribute to or a slam against her utility. I
think the lighting I chose to use makes this image closer to the former.
The tree on the left is my own creation, a collection of cones of varying
diameters, inpsired by L-systems after reading the book, "Chaos and Fractals." 
The tree on the right is the crackle texture applied to a set of spheres.  In
contrast, I included a few inept entries, such as a Christmas tree made out of
cones,  and a simple sphere attached to a misaligned cylinder.
The sky is the "anticyclone" texture by Denis Olivier from the POVLAB.INC 
The people are blobs of my own creation. I am not including this .INC in my zip
collection because it's not finished.  Right now, the people look acceptable
running around at a distance, but have no hands, and a superellipsoid for a
head. I don't want to see crappy artwork in the future which uses my men close
up and gives me credit!

