EMAIL: cleggp@megadodo.com
NAME: Paul Clegg
TOPIC: Summer
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED:  POV-Ray v2.2 NT / v3.0 Windows Beta
TOOLS USED:  gforge
RENDER TIME:  7.25 hours
HARDWARE USED:  For gforge:  486/66DX2 running Linux
                For POV-Ray:  Gateway P5-120

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

A war-worn monster sunbathing to its death in an eternal summer,
its weaponry not completely used, its mission never accomplished,
it has no recourse but to weather the sun beating down on its
armored skin.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

I used gforge to get a desert texture, then simply used it as a huge
heightfield.

I'd been working on the robot off and on for a few months, and never
did complete the legs.  All the modeling was done by hand, with no
other tools than a text editor.  The robot is based on BattleTech's
Warhammer; I'd bought the Exo-Squad Warhammer toy as a model (it sits
on my desk), and simply started to render it, piece by piece, keeping
it as modular as I could, for re-usability purposes.