EMAIL: gpateman@att.com

NAME: George J Pateman

TOPIC: Night

COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.

TITLE: "Night School"

COUNTRY: USA

WEBPAGE: under perpetual construction

RENDERER USED: POV-Ray for Windows 3.02.watcom.win32

TOOLS USED: MKS awk for DOS, Modellers?  We don't need no stinking modellers!

RENDER TIME: 20 minutes, 12 seconds at 800 x 600 with Antialias_Threshold=0.0

HARDWARE USED: HP Kayak XU with Dual Pentium II processors running @ 300MHz ea.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:  A school of fish taking night classes.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

  I created the fish "by hand" with stretched spheres with a mandel pigment.  
  To see one up close, create a simple POV file including THEFISH.INC,
  add "object{ FishBody }" and render.  Oh, and un-comment the eyes first!

  The schools of fish were created with MKS awk, some trig and calculus.
  (I JUST upgraded to POV-Ray for Windows with it's great trig functions.)
  The awk script positions N fishes in a circle along a multi-cyclic sine wave,
  rotates them to line up with their neighbors, then outputs to NIGHT.INC.
  I've created a HUGE FLC animation wherein the fish appear to follow each other
  along the sinusoidal paths and the ocean waves move.

  The moon is actually a light_source that looks_like a sphere with LUNATEX.TGA 
  image_mapped to it.

  The glow around the moon is just a 70% transparent z-plane with a bluish cast,
  placed directly behind the moon sphere.

  The starfield is distant z-plane with STARBACK.GIF image_mapped to it.

  The ocean is a simple y-plane with filter/waves/frequency/reflection tweaking.

  Viva POV-RAY !!!