EMAIL: art@cps.tver.ru NAME: Alexander Artemenko TOPIC: Spectacular Landscapes COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Magic Landscape COUNTRY: Russian Federation WEBPAGE: none RENDERER USED: Povray 3.5 TOOLS USED: HamaPatch, The Gimp RENDER TIME: Real 63 hours 56 minutes (CPU time 51 hours 52 minutes) HARDWARE USED: Pentium 4 1600 (256 Mb) IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The main object in this scene is a huge tree with giant roots. This tree like a mountain, and two roots make a canyon. To sign on the scale of this elements of the scene I make small village, river and the bridge, Magic atmosphere transfer with turbulenced ground fog, and fog above the river. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: All objects except houses, windmill, bridge and grass were made with HamaPatch as spline patches and then imported to POV-Ray. Giant tree and hills was formed with simple extruding of the splines. Houses and windmill are simple CSG objects. Grass was make as cones (about 50000), randomly placed on the terrain. For growing the grass and controlling it's height I've use spline patch with dimensions similar to all terrain. For make up the bridge, I've used splines to, but only for placing each part of the bridge. Focal blur and radiocity was used to make image more realistic (especialy grass at fron plan). You can find all scripts and HamaPatch file in zip archive (no imagemaps were used). P.S. - sorry for my ugly english, but I hope that you like my image indeed!