TITLE: Sailor's Delight
NAME: Sean Hamilton
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: scarmig@ohmss.com
WEBPAGE: members.home.com/scarmig
TOPIC: Landmarks
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: delight.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POV Ray 3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    POV Ray, Moray, Paint Shop Pro

RENDER TIME: 
    2.5 days

HARDWARE USED: 
    PII 333, 128 MB RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

At the end of a long day at sea, a lighthouse appears before a setting sun,
safely pointing the way home.




What better landmark than a lighthouse? 

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Heightfields, heighfields, heightfields, and some CSG for the lighthouse
itself.

I was aiming for an impressionistic rendering of the scene, as opposed to a
realistic one.  I wanted to capture the digital version of swabs of paint and
bright color that portray a feeling, rather than an realistic object or
viewpoint;  thus there are some noted inconsistancies in the art.


Paint Shop Pro was used to created the greyscale source tiffs for the
heightfields used in the water and clouds and rocks and for JPG conversion.

Source code lost in a subsequent drive crash (again) but I fortunately had
already uploaded it to my web site.  I have a source backup, it's just
inconvienient to get to, but if anybody want's just drop me an email.