EMAIL: michael.hazelgrove@virgin.net
NAME: Mick Hazelgrove
TOPIC: Water
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: A watery end
COUNTRY: UK
WEBPAGE: http://freespace.virgin.net/michael.hazelgrove/index.htm
RENDERER USED: Pov Ray 3.1
TOOLS USED: Corelpaint 7 to make the heightfield
RENDER TIME:
HARDWARE USED: 300mhz Pentium 2 with 128mb ram
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The dragonflies are mating. The males are displaying for the female - unfortunately she's just been eaten by a fish, only bubbles remain to mark her passing, soon they will be gone. The males - they'll be gone too, in search of another female. Just another day in the watery world of a pond.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

I have really struggled with this picture. The basics were easy, the water and the mist. The water lilleys have been modified from some code written for a previous entry, the colours, textures and compostion have been changed. The dragonflies caused a lot of head scratching and only worked when I gave up using an image map for the wings and moved to using a height field. A brilliant suggestion from Bob. Thanks Bob. The heightfield was constructed from a picture downloaded from the web and converted to a black and white pic in CorelPaint. Radiosity was used in the final rendering and adds tiny subtle touches of color, enriching the colour and texture of the final images.