Well, here is a new visit to a landscape I submitted in 2004 to the Desert 
topic of the IRTC. The landscape is composed of two isosurfaces (rocks and 
dunes) and a height_field in the distance. I reworked a little bit the 
textures used there, but not extensively. I added a media atmosphere and an 
area_light sun, tweaked the radiosity settings, and I exchanged the original 
cacti with Micha Reiser's blob bushes. Finally, I added the human touch 
(Chappe's semaphore, signpost, human and pet, old foundation) and changed 
the aspect ratio.

This is not Gurghusht (sorry Yadgar  :-)  ). This is Terra Incognita 
Australis (*not* Australia!) discovered in 1602 by Johannes Isidorusz. 
Kabeljauw (1581-1612) an early explorer of the VOC, and only rediscovered 
once by the adventurer Markus von Kopelstock in 1923... or so my imagination 
reconstructed history... ;-)

Rendertime has been extreme. I think that, on and off, the image took about 
80 hours or some more to be finished on a dual core machine using version 
3.7.

Thomas

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