TITLE: Retirement Log Cabin in Winter
NAME: Larry Boston
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: elboston@mint.net
WEBPAGE: None
TOPIC: Winter
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: lbcabinw.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    povray 3.5 ; Version Beta release 3


TOOLS USED: 
    ms paint, corel painter 6, adobe photoshop light, hp scanner,olympus
camedia C-700


RENDER TIME: 
    1 hr 20 min.


HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium III 733 mhz , 512 MB


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    My wife and I have talked int the past about moving into a
log cabin. I am retiring in August of this year and haven't saved much money
therefore this picture will have to do for our log cabin home. I probably won't
be sitting in the rocking chair in mid winter, but I can stand fairly cold
weather. I won't be moving to Florida or any south sea island. The barbed wire
fence is a reminder of the times I have either run into them or I have had to
climb over them. Hopefully  the ones I run into in the future won't have barbs
like the ones I have depicted.  
        None of the objects show aging. This is because I'm sure I would be
asked to fix them if they showed any rust. I will have enough to fix up on our
current house once I retire. There are no power lines leading to the house, but
I would find a way to make POV pictures even if I didn't have a power source.
There must be a street light near however, since there is light coming from in
front of the cabin. Yes,I know I left my lights on, but triple A will come to
my rescue.
 

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

        The cabin, tractor,and truck etc. were made by CSG. The snow texture and
the birch bark were created from digital photographs
taken on my property. The birch tree was created using Gilles Tran's tree macro
with the snow added by raising the tree slightly and using the snow texture on
the raised tree.
        Each part of the fir trees weres hand coded in so that I could have
better control over the branches. I plan to work on fir trees to make them more
realistic. The snow on the fir trees was made by using a color map, because
when I attempted to raise the tree as I did with the birch the the Beta version
of POV gave up and when I tried version 3.1 I stopped the rendering after it
had parsed for quite a long time. The fir trees in back are image maps of
different versions of fir trees created in seperate POV files to reduce
rendering time in the final image.
        The chimny was created as two prisms with one slightly larger in one
direction so that the texture could be applied in different directions.The
texture was created using the flat portion of Gilles Tran's wall macro using
spheres in place of the superellipsoids. 
        I didn't include a zip file because it would be quite large and some the
objects aren't quite complete. Once I complete the objects I may send them to
the site that has a collection of POV objects. 


