TITLE: Le Grand Bleu
NAME: Zeger Knaepen
COUNTRY: Vlaanderen (Belgium)
EMAIL: zeger_knaepen@yahoo.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.povplace.be.tf
TOPIC: Sea
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: zee.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    MegaPovPlus

TOOLS USED: 
    HamaPatch, Paint Shop Pro 5

RENDER TIME: 
    about 13 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium III 450 Mhz, 64 MB RAM, under Windows 98 SE


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Well, it's the sea, isn't it?  What more can I say?  Maybe it's not really
original, but I like it.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Actually I wasn't going to participate in this IRTC-round.  Didn't think I had
the time.  However, at the end of July, I was experimenting with the
displace-warp in MegaPovPlus and I came up with nice water
(displace-warped-granite-pattern-isosurface)
I added an isosurface-island (granite combined with poly_wave spherical
pattern), some clouds (layered spheres) and a sun (a custom lenseffect).  The
result was nice, but not nice enough.  So I added some birds (made with
HamaPatch) flying to the island.  Still not good enough.  I still needed
something in the foreground.  A dolphin (also made with Hamapatch, based on an
existing model, but I don't remember who made it) coming out of the water
seemed like a good idea.  The most difficult part, was the splashing water (a
10000-components blob).
There are no image_maps in this image.  I used PSP only to add my signature and
to convert it to JPEG.

ZK
http://www.povplace.be.Tf