TITLE: Circles
NAME: Jonas Weigt
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: f00@freenet.de
WEBPAGE: http://www.starportinfinity.com (Currently Under Development)
TOPIC: Loneliness
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: circles.jpg
ZIPFILE: circles.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    None

RENDER TIME: 
    2days 10hours 37minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    AMD Duron 700Mhz, 256 MB Ram, Win98SE

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    A Mechwarrior discovering his own
Mechs footsteps in the desert,realizing in this moment that he is alone, having
run in circles for hours, hopelessly trapped in the vast and cruel sands and
never again able to find his home... Unless he repairs the battle-worn
navigation system.
I have been using POV-Ray since August the 9th 2002, being my first (serious)
attempt in Raytracing. Even though my skills are not yet adequate, I decided to
submit this as an entry for the IRTC. 
I had the base idea for the Mech a few days after beginning to learn
POV-Ray, though I had no knowledge of the IRTCs existence. Later, when I came to
know the Competition and the current topic.
After modelling the Mech object entirely from CSG, basically using simple shapes
like spheres, boxes, splines etc., I began working on the textures, whereas I
quickly came up with ideas on the background. I wanted the scene to carry the
topic, "loneliness", via different aspects of the picture. The aspect ratio of
16:9 increases the feeling of a vast space, in which the Mechs pilot would be
hopelessly lost, namely the desert which I created via a height_field. I wanted
to increase the feeling of eerieness and strangeness by making the desert, the
fog and the lights rather unrealisticy bright and from a unusual angle. I used
media and normal ground fog for the glow, and a bright area_light sun in front
of the camera. Radiosity was also used.
THANKS:Many people in the povray.binaries.images newsgroup helped me during the
creation process on problems I encountered, and I want to express my thanks to
all of them.

