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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
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- TOOLS USED:
- POV-Ray editor, Poser2 for Adam and
- Eve,Keith Rule's Wcvt2pov, Lview Pro for jpeg
- conversion and copyright
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- RENDER TIME:
- 5 hours 23 minutes
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- HARDWARE USED:
- Pentium II 350 w/ 96 Mb RAM
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- IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
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- 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.
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- DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
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- 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.
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