TITLE: Fragile NAME: Marc JACQUIER COUNTRY: FRANCE EMAIL: jacquier.marc@wanadoo.fr WEBPAGE: http://www.marcjacquier.fr.st/ TOPIC: Spectacular landscapes COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: mj_atoll.jpg ZIPFILE: mj_atoll.zip RENDERER USED: POVRAY 3.5 TOOLS USED: Moray 3.5 beta RENDER TIME: HARDWARE USED: Athlon 1GHz 256MB sdram pc133 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: An atoll where I wish I spend some time before it is flooded by oceans rise. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The atoll is a height_field from an image created with paterned textures in Moray and rendered at 16bit grayscale. Remote island is made of two isosurfaces mixing image_maps and wrinkles for the rock and granite patern for vegetation. sand is a simple height_field The sea is a f_ridged_mf isosurface with absorption color Foreground cocotrees: truncs are spheres with random scale along a spline palm fingers are a mesh copyed with rand rotation along a spline which bending is dependent of the starting angle (the more horizontal, the more bended) remote cocotrees are tubed bicubic patches for the truncs and bicubic sheets with an image_map texture (image is a render of a foreground palm) for the palms. Foreground ground vegetation is a mesh leaf copied and dropped on the height_field ground with trace function and filtered by a bozo pigment converted to function to keep clear some sand surface. Clouds are a cylinder with scattering isotropic media