TITLE: Skinny Dip
NAME: Nathan O'Brien
COUNTRY: Australia
EMAIL: no13@ozemail.com.au
WEBPAGE: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~no13
TOPIC: Night
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: 13night2.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray for Windows 3.1 Beta

TOOLS USED: 
    Paintshop Pro, Rhino3d, Poser2

RENDER TIME: 
    9 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium II with 64Mb ram, Nt4 OS

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Skinny dipping. Something done mostly at night.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The main feature of this image is the hair. It was created using the POV3.1 beta
functions of #macro and #local. Using these features I've hacked together a
simple ballistics macro. I haven't included the source code with this one (but
I'll make it available when the first public beta release of POV3.1 is made). 

The female figure was made with Poser2 and needs some work. There are some
terrible errors at the top of the womans arm. (Deduct technical marks for this
one). I need to explode the mesh and correct the incorrect triangles. 

The background is a combination of fog layers, height fields, sphere arrays (for
the stars) and an image map on a sphere (the moon).

The water is a black plane using an agate normal.