TITLE: The watercube NAME: Frank Epple COUNTRY: Germany EMAIL: frank.epple@augsburg.baynet.de WEBPAGE: http://home.augsburg.baynet.de/frank.epple TOPIC: Water COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: wcube.jpg ZIPFILE: wcube.zip RENDERER USED: PovRAY 3.0 TOOLS USED: Paint Shop Pro RENDER TIME: 1 hour HARDWARE USED: Pentium 166 Mhz, 64 MByte IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This is a surrealistic picture of a cube of water. Some raindrops, that fell into it, caused the waves, interfering on the top of the cube. The waves also get over the border of the topface on the side-faces. This is my second submission in this round. My first submission is "contrast". DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: For this I wrote a short program which generates a heightfield of a waveform. This program can also generate heightfield's with interfering waves. I used only three heightfields, because the three backfaces of the cube can not be seen very good. So the three backfaces are simple cube's with thickness 0.01. Also, the backfaces dont reflect the light. Otherwise I got some nasty distortions.