TITLE: The Sand Bar
NAME: Raymond A. Salvatore
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: bonsalva@bellsouth.net
TOPIC: WATER
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: rasltho1.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Raydream Studio 5 raytracer

TOOLS USED: 
    Raydream Studio 5

RENDER TIME: 
    30 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    PENTIUM 233 MMX WITH 64 MEG SDRAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

The Lighthouse and caretaker's house were modelled from photographs and
a small desk statue that my wife gave me of the lighthouse on Fire Island
in New York.  That's where I grew up.  Fire Island is not quite that rocky-
in fact it's all sand and grass- no rocks.  Some time in the future I
will try to set up an exact scene with boardwalks and dunes, but  
 I enjoyed making a rocky island and am especially happy with the 
ocean on the left side of the picture.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    I created the lighthouse using
the freeform extrusion tool on a round complex circle that narrowed at
the middle just as the real lighthouse does. I used boolean subtractions
to make the holes for the windows and frames.  I used the extrusion tool
on a 12 sided complex form to make the top and also extruded the decorations
around the top.  The railings are just primitive spheres and cylinders.
The house was made from a box shape that was cut and added to with boolean
operations.  The sky is a gradient sphere. The clouds are actually just
one fog primitive.  The island is composed of serveral shapes that were
formed in the 4elements terrain builder then sent to the mesh form modeller
for adjustments.  All island elements including the sandy beach and water
have been deformed, some just twisted, the sand and water have radial waves.
The boats were were made from extruded planks and ribs just like real boats.
The sea gulls came out a little goofy, but my kids like them, they were
made in the meshform modeller by pushing and pulling vertices. The sea gulls
in the background are extruded from my own drawings.