TITLE: Back Mountain Road
NAME: Lamere Family
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: lamere@speakeasy.org
TOPIC: Winter
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: bmr.jpg
ZIPFILE: bmr.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    Gimp for JPEG creation
        Spline Tree by Andrew Clinton at http://povplace.addr.com/


RENDER TIME: 
    4 Hours 3 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    1.4 GHz P4, RH 7.2 Linux


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

        A family effort by Paul(42), Chris(12), Cari(11), Liz(10) and
        Jennie(7). This is our second IRTC entry.  We wanted to create
        an image that could be considered 'artistic' this round, one
        that would be appealing if we hung it on the wall.

        This is a winter scene, reminiscent of a place that we used to live, 
        Back Mountain Road, Goffstown NH. The hills are called the Uncannoonuc
        Mountains.
        


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


        Thanks to Andrew Clinton for his fine Splinetree macro. His trees
        really make the image.

        Fence is simple CFG with some looping and randomness thrown in. For
        those from more temperate climes, snow fences really are this funny
        red color, by the way.

        The Hills/Mountains were created with a single lathe object that was
        scaled rotated to make all non-flat ground.

        Tire tracks are just long boxes subtracted from the snow.

        Mailboxes are simple CFG.

        We used a sky by Norbert Kern (miracle.jpg) as a starting point for
        this sky.

        We tried some radiosity, but felt the image was too washed out, so we
        went back to the sharper but less realistic image.

        There are some image artifacts (stray pixels) left by Povray in the
        sky and left mountain. We are not sure what caused this. Any ideas?


