EMAIL:kevin@tapestry.tuc.az.us
NAME:Kevin Wampler
TOPIC: Summer
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.0 beta
TOOLS USED: Mid Night Modeller 2.1, xpaint   
RENDER TIME: 48 minutes
HARDWARE USED: Cyrix 586 120 MHz
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This is an image of some dolphins playing with bubble rings.
        Above them are human summer beach toys a beach ball and a surf board.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I got the idea for this image when I
        read a Scientific American article about dolphins that create 
        ring-shaped bubbles for play.  I thought about how much this was like
        humans playing with toys when I realized that I could make a Povray 
        image based on this.  So I went to work.  I made the dolphins out of
        a combination of four bezier patches (one for the body, one for each
        fin and one for the tail).  For the ring bubble I made a white, 
        reflective and transparent texture.  This showed the shiny, almost
        luminous effect that underwater bubbles have.  I raytraced this image 
        first with no fog.  This made the dolphins and the bottom half of the 
        surf board look like they were really underwater.  Unfortunately I got
        some awful interference patterns.  So I made the sky and water planes
        hollow and added a thick fog underwater
        to dim out the background.  When I did this I got a much duller 
        underwater scene, oh well.