TITLE: Fountain of Youth NAME: Aaron Gage COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: agage@csee.usf.edu WEBPAGE: http://www.csee.usf.edu/~agage/ TOPIC: Water COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: amgfoy.jpg ZIPFILE: amgfoy.zip RENDERER USED: POVray 3.0 for Linux TOOLS USED: Only those I wrote myself RENDER TIME: 39 29 38 for AA0.001 with radiosity at 800x600 HARDWARE USED: i486DX2/66 with 32 Megs RAM under Linux 2.0.33 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Deep within its watery demesne, the Fountain of Youth stands hidden and forgotten beyond the reach of mortal influence. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Just about all of the elements of this image were taken from previous works of mine, and given the two weeks I had to generate it, I think that I consider their combination to be successful. The fountain is a work of CSG, and the actual water represents two techniques that I have been experimenting with. The lower pool was modelled as a 200x200 mesh of triangles, which was trimmed using CSG to be round in shape. The spouts of water are blobs, arranged using a loop to position them. The stone in the top pool is a sphere with a number of planes cut from it, forming a sharp edge along the top which is difficult to discern. The water around the platform is a wave normal pattern, and the wall in the background is a layered texture. I realize that this image is simple, and that there are areas of space that could have been better developed. As it was, I had more in mind, but ran out of time. An interpretation of this theme did not strike me until most of the time was gone. Ultimately, this is somewhere in between a simple fountain and images of the Earthblood from Donaldson.