TITLE: The Lost Kingdom NAME: Joseph Eddy COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: eddy0019@tc.umn.edu WEBPAGE: http://jceddy.tripod.com/ TOPIC: The Sea COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: jcesea.jpg RENDERER USED: POV-Ray TOOLS USED: Pov-Ray, Microsoft Image Composer (For Jpeg Conversion) RENDER TIME: about 13 hrs. HARDWARE USED: AMD K6-2 366, 128 MB RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This scene is loosely based on the undersea Lost Kingdom of Weis and Hickman's world of Thimhallan. This is a more futuristic version. The city has long since been deserted and the only remnants of the civilisation once housed there are the near-flawless natural power system, and the greeat Ruby Palace...much to big to move, obviously. A small submarine is checking out the newly-rediscovered cluster of domes resting along the ocean floor. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I started out by arranging spheres for the domes of the Kingdom according to a pictoral map in the Darksword Adventures book...then worked from there. The ocean floor is a marble-ish texture, rippled and made a bit shiny to create the illusion of caustics from the ocean surface. There is some dark-blue fog to help along the underwater effect. The main lighting of the scene comes from four light sources placed high in the sky (I use four instead of one so the shadows cast by the domes aren't to sharp). Also, the glowing "energy" spheres at the center of each dome cast bluish light that is reflected from the (CSG) fish and the submarine...this light has a relatively small falloff value so it doesn't effect the lighting of the ocean floor itself too greatly. Most of the rendering time can be attributed to the fact that there are 20+ light sources in the scene.