TOPIC: Contrast 
EMAIL: reactor_x@hotmail.com
NAME: Jonathon H. Rogers
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Adrift
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: sorry, not yet...
RENDERER USED: POVray 3.1
RENDER TIME: 2h 36m
TOOLS USED: PhotoShop for conversion only, HF-lab for the mountains.
HARDWARE USED: Pentium III @ 650Mhz, 128M RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
	The derelict sailboat, the tattered remains of its rigging drifting in the winds of the building storm...The forces of nature being interrupted by a single, man-made object that has been abandoned long ago...An unnatural object in the midst of all that is natural.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
	This image actually came as a surprise to me, it wasn't my intention at all to do an ocean scene.  I had originally intended to do a forested landscape with something man-made, the same theme but I was having too much trouble getting the image how I wanted it.  I gave up on it entirely, was working on something else when I made the sky.  The sky is actually a series of carefully textured planes, 30 total that were generated in a script I wrote.  The textures are using the 'wrinkle' pattern in povray; no image maps were used.  Later, with 10 days left in the contest, I saw this really cool dusk desert photo with this stark sky and a detailed landscape foreground and started thinking.  I didn't want to abandon my clouds, so I threw them in :).  The boat was an afterthought and is a fairly simple model.  The remains of the rigging were generated using another script I wrote for sweeping an object along a bezier path.  I wanted a dark foreground with a contrasting sky, so all objects are textured fairly dark with low ambient values.  I was afraid it would look too flat, so I added the ground fog.