EMAIL:m1m@wow.com
NAME:MaryAnn Mandell
TOPIC:Summer
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED:WinPOv 3.0 beta15
TOOLS USED:Moray
RENDER TIME:apox 4 hours
HARDWARE USED:pentium 100
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
At exactly 10:30 P. M. on July Fourth, I knew what I wanted to do for this
competition. Fireworks! I just returned from the annual display and wanted to
share the excitement of watching the fleeting fragments of light illuminate the
sky and reflect from buildings and water. 


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

After doing lots of studies with WINPOV 3.0 betax, I ended up using halos to
create the fireworks. I used Moray model a large globe using spheres to
represent what I call fireballs and a globe of cylinders to represent what I
call flares. The street lights are also halos. Then I had to go to WinPov
(Moray does not do windows or halos <g>) in order to create the halos. I am
aware that they do not look exactly like fireworks, they do have the essence of
that sudden flash of light.

The city (which has no relationship to any real cityscape) was modeled and
textured using Moray. The shore is the difference of a large cube and cylinder
with another large cube to simulate the water.  The buildings and windows are
cubes that were carefully scaled and placed so that I could use as few of them
as possible and yet look as if the city was big. There are one thousand,eight
hundred and ten objects in this scene, so all the city textures are very
ambient to cut down on the need for lighting which slowed down rendering.