EMAIL: strom.ausfall@t-online.de
NAME: thomas jourdan
TOPIC: ruins
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: last visitor on solaris
COUNTRY: germany
WEBPAGE: home.t-online.de/home/strom.ausfall
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1
TOOLS USED: gimp, Moray 3.2 Beta, sPatch 1.5, 3DWinOGL V3.5
RENDER TIME: 50 min
HARDWARE USED: AMD K6-400
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
This picture is inspired by the stalker, an film from Andrey Tarkowskij,
base on a novel from Arkadi and Boris Strugatzki. Another source is
Stanislaw Lems book Solaris.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
The rusty textures are image maps shot with Sony Marvica digtal
camera. I made these pictures tilable using the 'make seamless' filter
in gimp. The black face on the goden plate ist createte with an
genetic algorithm. The rest of the textures are standart pov examples.
3D modeling was done with with a Beta Version of Moray and sPatch.
Image format converting and whatersign is done with gimp.
