TITLE: Yin and Yang Koi

NAME: Greg Gargett
COUNTRY: USA

EMAIL: ggargett@attbi.com
TOPIC: Spirit of Asia
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: irtcsoa1.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.1g


TOOLS USED: 
    Moray 3.3a, LParser, Blob Sculptor 1.0


RENDER TIME: 
    2 hours 48 minutes


HARDWARE USED: 
    Gateway P850 XL, Windows 98SE


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    A tranquil pool, koi, cherry blossom, torii... Keeping
imagery simple seems to fit the theme.  Simple and peaceful.  From start to
finish it took two days to complete the basic scene.  Some tweaking arrived at
the final image.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    Completely modeled in Moray.
Started with the rockbed.  The rocks are one blob randomly scaled, rotated and
textured to create a stone "tile."  The tile was used eight times in two layers
to build the pond bottom.

The water had a ripple normal applied so as one ripple pattern is present.  A
cherry blossom created with bezier patches is placed at the origin of the
ripple pattern.  The torii is simple sweeps and primitives.  It is not very
detailed since it will only be seen in reflection.

The cherry tree was created in LParser with an extra leaf object added to create
a fuller look to the tree.  Imported as a UDO object into Moray.  The leaves
are textured white to simulate cherry blossoms.  Again, the tree is not very
detailed because it is only seen in reflection.

The koi are bezier patches.  I was only going to have one koi but when I test
rendered the white/black koi I found that it came out solid white with the one
black spot on the head.  This inspired the creation of two koi with this
texture to create an abstract yin/yang symbol with the fish.