TITLE: Snowy on the moon
NAME: Damien Verhelst
COUNTRY: Belgium
EMAIL: d.verhelst@ulg.ac.be
WEBPAGE: http://isis.ltas.ulg.ac.be/geradin/personnel/verhelst/
TOPIC: First encounter
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: snowy.jpg
ZIPFILE: snowy.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.0

TOOLS USED: 
    AC3D v1.66a,
            Gforge v1.3a to generate the height-field
            Corel Photopaint to modify the height-field and to
                                convert the image                             

RENDER TIME: 
    36 min ( resolution 1024x768 )

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium II 266 Mhz - 128 Mb Ram


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Since I was 8 years old and I read my first Tintin adventure, I have had a
fascination 
with the boy reporter and his dog that I have never grown out of. My favorite
albums are
the moon adventure. ("Destination Moon" and "Explorers on the Moon")
 
The second part of this adventure was a chance for Herg_ to work free from the
constraints
of science. Apart from fundamental facts such as gravity, nothing was known
about the moon or 
manned space flight, so he was free to use his inventive qualities. He does not
become too 
fantastic however. The strangest thing Tintin finds on the moon is water. But
water doesn't mean
life? And if Tintin had discovered a human skeleton? Maybe, Tintin wasn't the
first man on the moon.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Modelling:
What is there to tell? It's a very simple image with some simple objects.
Almost all objects are primitives or CSG objects, modeled in POV's Scene
Description Language. 
The boots are made from blobs. The heightfield was generated by Gforge. The boot
traces were added with Corel.
The hardest part was to create the head of snowy. For this purpose, I used
AC3D.

Lights:
There are only two lights in the scene: a spot light and a point light.

Files:All files for rendering this scene are included in the Zip-File, but the
source-code isn't documented.

This is my first picture I sent to the IRTC, I hope you'll like it. 
Thanks to the POV-Team for their fabulous POV-Ray software and to the IRTC Team
for running the contest.

Best regards

Damien Verhelst



