After a storm on a humid, alien planet the inscets enjoy a break before the next storm will hit them

After a storm on a humid, alien planet the inscets enjoy a break before the next storm will hit them.

The inspiration to this image came form the paintings of Tim White.

The sky is scattering media. There are only tow lightsources, the sun and a fill light. Because this image contains thousands of objects advanced features such as radiosity or focal blur where too slow on my PC (3.6 GHz P4 with 1 GB RIM).
Main topic of the image are the vegetations. Most of them are blobs. I wrote little macro to grow them and distribute them on a hight field.
The close up towers are iso csg of sor's do give the mesh some real thikness. The resulting isosurface has a very high max_gradient. I didn't use this value because it's too slow, therefore there are minor imperfections in the mesh. The distant towers are textured sor's.

POV-Ray 3.6, Photoshop LE for jpeg conversion

153_source.zip (5480 kb)

Cool image, and a good example of a picture meeting its own ambitions. Composition and colouring are extremely pleasant. More work could have been done to the towers, and for an "after the storm" image it's not very wet.