Abandoned House
"Abandoned House" by 'ArT'

Abandoned House On a Bank of the River

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Long Description

I always draw my images just for fun, and I never sure about final result. Whole image was created by hands without any GUI tools. My main instruments are brain and vim :).

During my experiments I have notice that twisted sequence of the toruses looks like strange fantasy house or shack. So, I began from the house...

Next, I made a terrain, using a heightfield. Basic height filed image were drawn using The GIMP, and then it were merged with noise, generated by hflab. I made abrupt shore using isosurface to make it more relief. Water surface was made as isosurface.

Originally, I decided to make tries on the background plane. I try to use the tomtree macro, but it rendering time was terrible. So, I decline this idea and place giant grass leaflets instead tries. Original grass macro by Gilles Tran was modified by me to use mesh2 for proper UV mapping.

To make image more interesting, I place a small grass on a terrain using the Compressed mesh macro by Chris Colefax. Compressed mesh was generaited with special povray script.

To demonstrate small size of the house, I add three giant toadstools and huge glass bottle with the POVRAY logo on the label. Toadstools were made using combination of isosurfaces. Bottle is a simple Surface Of Rotation.

How to build the image:

To build image under the Unix simple type:

#make release

and you'll get release.png and release.log files in the current directory.

To build under MS Windows, load the file domik.ini in the Povray for Windows 3.6 and render it!

Have a fun folks, and forgive me for the pure english!!!

P.S. Keep the nature natural!!!

Making Of

Not Supplied

Tools Used

Used hardware:

My Home PC:

CPU Athlon Barton 2600+ overclocked to 3200+ with 512 DDR 400. OS - Gentoo Linux with 2.6.8.1 kernel.

My work server:
CPU Intel Pentium III 1200 MHz with 256 SDRAM. OS - Mandrake 10 Community with 2.6.3 kernel.

Used software:

* Povray 3.6 - for rendering.
* GIMP 2.0.0 - for crop and image signature.
* Modified grass macro by Gilles Tran - for giant grass leaflets.
* Compressed mesh macro by Chris Colefax - for small grass.
* ISO wood macro by Christoph Hormann - for bridge chumps.
* Sky is based on Rune S. Johansen fast sky example.
* hflab - for noised terrain.
* make - for compilation of the images.
* vim - for pov files edition.

Supplied Files

a_house.tgz (3210 kb)
bottle.jpg (323 kb)

Detail Images

Detail 1: 1600x800 @ 236,210

Detail 2: 1600x800 @ 1116,210
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