EMAIL: talious@earthlink.net
NAME: Matthew Corey Brown
TOPIC: Summer
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: povray 3.0 linux
TOOLS USED: HF-Lab
RENDER TIME: 9 hours 28 minutes  51.0 seconds (34131 seconds) 
HARDWARE USED: 486DX2-50

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Dawn on midsumer morn at the Mayhill Stonehenge replica in south eastern 
Washington State. It over looks the columbia River and Across the river 
is Oregon State. With a full moon just about to set as dawn comes to the
Washington Stonehenge, with quite a bit of artistic liscense.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

I went on a road trip at the begining of july. I payed 
attention to locals i been for a series of ray traces i'm planning on doing.
One of them was my favorite place in my home state.. the Stonehenge 
Replica/Monument. I got home and found out the topic was summer and i 
knew exactly what to do.

The river, clouds and sky are done with very large spheres. I find it 
better to do it this way so it feels more like earth to me while making it 
although the visual effect might be far below the pixel resolution.

The sky is made so that if you put the camera on the other side of the 
world you'll see a night sky. Its not accuate but good enough for stills.

The clouds is bozo pigment map with two entrys Clear and another bozo 
color map.

The moon is a texture i'm still working on for my space scenes but good 
enough for this scene.

The hill in the foreground and the ridge in the distance was done with 
HF-lab and lower resolutions are provide as POT files for ease of space.
To increase these sizes I suggest the following commands in hf-lab
        load hill.pot
        double
        double
        gf
        * 0.02 
        + 1
        mul
        norm
        save hill.pot
This should resize andd smooth out hill.pot and be good enough for a 
large render. You may need to adjust things a bit to get the stones from 
standing in mid air.

Stone henge itself.. I pickedd up a library book on stonehenge cause the 
replica is a 6 hour drive from me and made it from there with help of
while loops of povray 3.0. I had the marker "bluestone" columns in but they 
got in the way of what I wanted in the picture.