TITLE: Sons and Daughters
NAME: Martin Presler-Marshall
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: jhreingold@yahoo.com
WEBPAGE: N/A
TOPIC: Warfare
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: sad.jpg
ZIPFILE: sad.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POVRay 3.5 Beta 7

TOOLS USED: 
    ULead PhotoImpact (to add copyright text), Gilles Tran's
    grass include file

RENDER TIME: 
    (didn't record)

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium II/300 MHz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

    In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, I heard many people shouting for
war. While I was horrified by the attacks on the US, I was concerned that
an unthinking response was going only to produce more generations of people
for whom the US is the Great Satan. When I then saw the IRTC topic, I knew
that I'd hit on an image idea.
    This picture is intended to give the viewer one simple message: remember
that when calling for war, it's someone's son or daughter who will be paying
for that call.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

    The tomb object is a fairly simple use of CSG. I built three possible 
top motifs (for Christian, Jewish, and Muslim individuals), and then used
random number generators to choose the top motif for each tomb. I also used
random number generators to pick the deceased person's unit and years of life.
I chose the names off a list - starting with a list of authors of American 
poetry of the 20th century, and then adding some more to broaden the ethnic 
mix.
    One of the last things I added was the tree's shadow near the front. I 
would have liked to change the camera angle and add some actual trees, but
my POVRay skills aren't up to that yet.

    


