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