EMAIL: dewhurst@physnet.phys.wits.ac.za
NAME: John K. Dewhurst
TOPIC: Unbelievable
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Mud
COUNTRY: South Africa
WEBPAGE: ---
RENDERER USED: POVray 3.1a
TOOLS USED: Corel Photopaint, Spatch, L-Parser
RENDER TIME: About 7 hours
HARDWARE USED: Pentium Pro 200
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

  "Unbelievable!", wispered the ranger. We peered forward.
   There in the saturated ground was a fresh footprint of
   something very large and undeniably human...

I am, of course, refering to the legendary Bigfoot which
supposedly wanders around forests in the North-Western USA.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The mud was a height field drawn in Corel and carefully
textured to appear damp. The beer can (Bigfoot Ale, naturally)
was made with SPatch. L-Parser created the tree. The variable
reflection of the water was done by splitting the plane into
many small segments each with different reflectivity.

The inspiration for this picture was a drawing by M. C. Escher.

JKD