EMAIL: arcana@sinbad.net
NAME: David R. Heys
TOPIC: Water
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Waterwings
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
WEBPAGE: http://www.sinbad.net/~arcana
RENDERER USED: POV 3.1
TOOLS USED: sPatch, Photoshop
RENDER TIME:Several hours (shut down the danged program without checking and 
I'm not re-rendering just to put in the # of hours)
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 166, w. 48 MB RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Has the fabled Winseat plane met its end at last? After a myriad of travails
around the world and possibly to worlds beyond our own, could this be the end?
Only time will tell.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

I had waffled over several ideas for the Water round, without coming to any 
conclusion. Then, after being admitted as an Associate Admin, Bill jokingly 
commented that I must now make the obligatory Winseat image. :{)

It immediately sparked me, and I began. The seat cushions, seat backs, and 
seat back protectors/head mats, were all created in sPatch. Everything else 
is simple csg. The window frames are differenced superellipsoids. The upper
compartments are created by differencing a cylinder with superellipsoids.
The water, starting to come in through the edges ofthe window frames, was 
made with blobs. The water outside is a simple box with a wrinkle pattern.

There's nothing really special in this image. It was made for fun, not for
competition. That's not to say that it was a quick whip-up. A lot of work 
went into it, so constructive criticism is still welcome. :{)

Photoshop was used to convert the Targa image over to JPG.