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.