EMAIL: manorton@tcnet.net
NAME: Mike Norton
TOPIC: Summer
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION
COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: PovRay 3.0 beta 15a for Win95
TOOLS USED: PoVSB, Terrain Maker Version 1.1
RENDER TIME: 18 min. 12 sec.
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133 with 32 megs of ram.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

It took me some time to come up with a thought about summer.  I know that the
majority of
images will be of the sun and a beach perhaps but I had another recollection.  I
see summer as if I
where on the north shores of the ocean of either of our US coasts.  

This lighthouse sits out in the water watching every day and night as ships and
boats pass bye. 
Only this night there is a different and strange passerby.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

All of the textures used are either stock PovRay 3 textures with one exception. 
The rock texture
for the island was borrowed from another PovRay image I saw somewhere.  It fit
very nicely.

This was my first successful attempt at hight fields.  I created the image map
for the HF by first
trying VistaPro, but I could not get a smooth rock appearance.  So I resorted
back to a old DOS
buddy of mine, Terrain Maker.  I played around with the setting a bit and came
up with this hight
field.

The Lighthouse was completely modeled using PoVSB.  The top is simply a series
of cylinders
with the actual house part of the structure being constructed out of a lathe
object in PoVSB.

There was not enough in the image so I grabbed a 3DS model from 3DCafe and
converted it into
a include file for pov using Wcvt2Pov.  Because the sub is in the foggy
background I did not do
anything to the texture.  Its simply a shiny dark grey color and works very
well.

I really enjoyed working on this project.  I am going to attempt to port this
file to RIB and render
it using Blue Moon Rendering Tools on Linux, but I will not have that ready for
the competition.