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Member : DrNo

Title	:	Dry land
Name	:	Normand Brière
Country	:	Canada
Email	:	#############
Webpage	:	www.noware.ca
Topic	:	The Lost City (March)
Copyright	:	Agreed - 2009-04-16 21:16:12
JPG file	:	pw-1239912972-dryland.jpg
Renderer Used	:	OpenGL (ARB program)
Tools used	:	Homemade Java software
Render Time	:	15 minutes
Hardware Used	:	Macintosh Core 2 Duo, RadeonX1600

Image description

Because of the global warming, people knew that the sea level was increasing and decided to build cities on top of mountains. However, they didn't expect ascending air currents to carry sand from the valleys, thus producing more and more important sandstorms. The city itself became a vortex attractor.

Now that the sea has covered the valleys and that the ice caps have melted completely, there is no obstacle for the city to be resurrected.

Description of how this image was created

I got only one technical point. Since I cannot do very good sky rendering, I often use a plain photograph. However this time, I tried something different. The clouds are made of multiple copies a single alpha-channeled (real) cloud with various scale, symmetry and rotation. Maybe a closer look is needed, but one should recognize the cloud used as the template.

General statistics
No of ratings	:	13
Min. overall rating	:	30 (10 / 10 / 10)
Max. overall rating	:	54 (18 / 19 / 17)
Sum of rating	:	503 / 780
Date uploaded	:	2009-03-08 12:54:22

Specific details

Note: The maximum value below is misleading as the voting system has changed.
If the member votes for all the entries and has created one him/herself, there is an
automatic 20/20/20 score added to the value (This encourages all members who enter to vote).

Rating type

Min

Max

Sum

Out of

Artistic

170

260

Concept

165

260

Technical

168

260

Overall

503

780

Comments by members when rating this image

1.	27-04-2009	Nice composition with lots of details. I think a bit of blur on the clouds would have helped set them back a bit and look more realistic.
2.	25-04-2009	The clouds look good in my opinion. They may seem a little out of place with the detail of the rest of the picture. Not a bad picture all in all.
3.	21-04-2009	Perhaps the sharp edges in the ground texture could be fixed.
4.	18-04-2009	The weakest of your shots. The clouds work out quite good.
5.	17-04-2009	For me one of the best of this round

Dry land