TITLE: Safely afloat in the basket
NAME: Peter Murray
COUNTRY: England
EMAIL: peter@table76.demon.co.uk
WEBPAGE: http://www.table76.demon.co.uk/POV/
TOPIC: Water
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: pdmawash.jpg
ZIPFILE: pdmawash.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1a Macintosh PPC

TOOLS USED: 
    Graphic Converter to convert pict images to png imagemaps
  Adobe Photoshop to convert the final image to jpg and add text

RENDER TIME: 
    0 hours 13 minutes 59.0 seconds (839 seconds)

HARDWARE USED: 
    Apple Macintosh G3 300MHz Desktop

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    The flood leaves the street deserted except for a bear

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

After considering some other ideas, I was finally inspired by the news
to do a flooded image.  I needed a focus, and decided not to leave the
bear swimming, but put it into the picnic basket from an earlier round.
The sinister underlighting on his face seems to be caused by reflections
from the water, combined with the shadowing effect of the basket lid.

The trees were slightly revised from their appearance in an earlier
round; I tried to change the colour map to reflect autumnal colours,
but they're too small to see any difference.

The drink can was originally modelled for an idea I had for the Elements
round, but never used when I dropped that idea.  The Povsi and Dr Povray
can designs were created to avoid infringing any trademarks/giving free
advertising :-) .

The building was created for this round, but suffered from having to
compete with other demands on my time, preparing for something that's
been postponed anyway... so I could have fixed the problems with the
buildings, and added the interior details I didn't have time to do.

I realised too late I hadn't remembered to model an object to put the
text on, so yet again they've been added in Photoshop :-( .

I think I remembered to include all the files.


Rendering notes: The light area at the bottom and left of the image
seems to be just an overly-bright reflection.

While rendering and re-rendering it over the past three hours to fix
minor problems, I happened to see a news programme about floods, and
was amazed again at how reality keeps managing to include so many little
details... with a few more days, maybe... but it's after midnight here,
and it seems like cheating to take advantage of the time zone differences.


So... what's the next topic, and does it have a place for a teddy bear :-) ?