EMAIL: cedarc@geocities.com
NAME: Cedar Cox
TOPIC: Water
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Thirsty?
COUNTRY: USA
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.01
TOOLS USED: HFlab (thank you John!), Photoshop for (c)/JPG conversion
RENDER TIME: ~18 Hours*
HARDWARE USED: P60 for render, a variety of others during creation
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
One day I happened to remember Povray and how cool it was, so I got to 
looking at the web site.. then I remembered the competition.  Water.
Hmm, no water, desert...with a little water.  So I had an idea, but one
problem. I had only about a week to create an image.  Looks like I pulled
it off!

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
The only height field used in this image is the 'mountain' or large hill 
(I live in Colorado) in the background.  20 planes stacked on top of each
other with creative pigment mapping makes up the cracked ground.  

Used Photoshop to add (c), resize image, and convert to JPG.  I
accidentally rendered at 1024x768 without realizing 800x600 was max size
accepted.  Email me if you would like the large TGA and just don't feel
like rendering it.

* Computer was turned off before I could write time down.. this is render
time at 1024x768