Thomas de Groot wrote:
> 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

Great scene!  landscaping is superb--very believable shapes for the 
rocks and dunes, and the textures are excellent for them.  I think there 
ought to be a little green lizard on the one of the close rocks though.

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