CPSC 3710 Computer Graphics
Term Project
Omar Zabaneh
Monday, February 14, 2005
Title
Travelling Through the Winter Prairies
Description
This picture, drawn from imagination, attemps to represent the cold winters in the Prairies.
A highway, covered with a thin layer of blowing snow particles, cuts through the snow covered
field on both sides (and middle).
Design & Implementation Details
POV-Ray was used to implement this picture. No external image files or processing software
was used. After two days of reading the first few chapters of the POV-Ray manual, and example
code, I was able to start working on this picture.
The picture was build in many stages, each exploring a new feature. I started with adding a basic
camera and source light and a plain representing my world! The following list enumerates the different
stages of implementation:
- road with basic color pigment
- white stipes on road, using a while loop
- fields and higway land seperator (submerged cylinder), with basic colors
- texture (snow and bumps) for road and fields
- atmosphere with cloud texture
- fences (wedges) on both sides, using a while loop
- light posts on both sides, using a while loop
- better lighting (the hardest part, essential step to make things look more realistic)
I did not need to borrow any outside source, except that provided by the POV-Ray 3.6 Macintosh
templates and standard include files.
Source Code
The POV-Ray source file is available here
Omar A. Zabaneh - Last Updated Monday, February 14, 2005