EMAIL: sgowers@us.oracle.com NAME: Steve Gowers TOPIC: Summer COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. RENDERER USED: Povray 3.0 for Windows TOOLS USED: Paintshop for file conversion RENDER TIME: 58 min HARDWARE USED: Pentium P90 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Bucket of Shells DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I wanted to try out more detailed textures with some of the new POV features so spent proportionally effort on the modelling - the shell shapes are iterated objects based the ideas in swirlbox.pov by Eduard Schwan which are included with POV. The textures are all my own work. I'm happy with both the sea and the sand textures - the colouring in the sand I stumbled across trying to do something else. If I'd had more spare time I would have worked on the shell textures some more An alternate name for this picture could be 1001 uses for Crackle, I've found that it allows some useful 'roughening' which is helpful reducing the plastic look of some renderings - its that that makes the more realistic highlights on the sea for example. Also rendered without antialiasing to conserve the grainy look.