EMAIL: helene.dumur@free.fr
NAME: Helene Dumur
TOPIC: Decay
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Etang
COUNTRY: France
WEBPAGE: http://helene.dumur.free.fr/index.htm
RENDERER USED: Pov-Ray 3.5
TOOLS USED: MakeTree (Gilles Tran)- HfLab 
RENDER TIME: 47 minutes
HARDWARE USED: Athlon 1200 - Linux Red Hat 7.2

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

It's a very sad story : once upon a time there was a nice river, which flowed in the middle of a green country, whith big trees, crossed by an old bridge whith sturdy arches. Men have lived here, happy and serene. And then... earth has begun to warm, inhabitants have neglected it, they have dropped their trashes anywhere, and, in place of the nice valley, finally there is only a dirty swamp, on which rusty irons, fat papers, old tires, and oil are floatting. The trees have yet no leaves, they spread their emaciated branches in the middle of a putrified fog.
And there, only strange frogs are living, in this stinking mist, while the old bridge begin to collapse.

... Sorry for my poor english 


For the french speaking people..

C'est une bien triste histoire : Il était une fois une jolie rivière, qui coulait au milieu d'une campagne verdoyante, avec de grands arbres verts, enjambée par un très vieux pont aux arches puissantes. Les hommes vivaient là, heureux et sereins. Et puis... La terre s'est réchauffée, les habitants ne l'ont plus respectée, ils ont jeté leurs déchets n'importe où, et, à la place de la vallée riante, il n'est plus resté qu'un marécage fétide, où flottent ferrailles et papiers gras, vieux pneux et coulées d'huile, les arbres ont perdu leurs feuilles, et tendent leurs branches décharnées au travers d'une brume fétide. Seuls des amphibiens mutants prospèrent dans une telle atmosphère, tandis que le vieux pont, vaincu par la décadence, commence tout doucement à s'écrouler.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

I don't remember where the frogs come from... Thank you for the unknown author of those animals.

The whole scene is done width simple objects, lathes and CSG such as bottles, cans, and other dirty things... I'm better for imagine than to realize !
I used the MakeTree macro (by Gilles Tran) for the unleaved trees and a hight field to break the bridge. I have tried to make a naive picture, not a serious one perhaps like a symbolic picture of the end of the human life (whith humor, I hope..)