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TITLE: Ultimate Sin
NAME: Bob Franke
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: bobfranke@halcyon.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.halcyon.com/wordsltd/pov/pov.htm
TOPIC: History
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: abomb.jpg
ZIPFILE: abomb.zip
RENDERER USED:
POV-Ray 3.1
TOOLS USED:
POV-Ray editor, Poser2 for Adam and
Eve,Keith Rule's Wcvt2pov, Lview Pro for jpeg
conversion and copyright
RENDER TIME:
5 hours 23 minutes
HARDWARE USED:
Pentium II 350 w/ 96 Mb RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
My biblical knowledge is very rusty, so I may not get
this quite right. The act of Original Sin was eating
the fruit of the tree of knowledge. This resulted in
mankind having the knowledge of right and wrong and the
ability to choose one or the other. In my image the
Ultimate Sin was exploding the first atomic bomb and
obtaining the ability to destroy all life on the
planet.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
The fireball, column and ground dust were done with
media.
Adam, Eve were created with Poser2 and converted to
include files with Keith Rule's Wcvt2pov. Because
backlit mesh objects do not work very well with POV, I
traced Adam & Eve separately and included them as an
image_map.
The landscape, behind the bomb is accurate. Shown,
just east of the bomb site, is the Oscura Mountains in
New Mexico. I downloaded the 1:250,000-Scale Digital
Elevation Model (DEM) for the Trinity bomb site from
URL
http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/doc/edchome/ndcdb/ndcdb.html.
I then emailed a couple of web sites to get the
latitude & longitude of ground zero.
I found several programs to convert the DEM files to
TGA, but only John Beale's would create 16-bit data.
All the others made 8-bit height fields. I didn't like
how John's program worked so I wrote my own,
wDem2Tga.exe. WDem2tga has the option to create 8 or 16
bit files and the ability to scale the data with the
lowest elevation at zero. This makes the image easier
to use when scaling on the y axis. Also, mine is the
only Windows DEM conversion program that I know of and
includes an image viewer. You may download a copy of
wDem2Tga from the Utility page on my POV web site.
Well, that's about it. I hope you like the image.