TITLE: Mirage in the desert ?
NAME: Philippe BARTKOWIAK
COUNTRY: France
EMAIL: ph.bartkowiak@wanadoo.fr
TOPIC: Desert
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: mirage.jpg
ZIPFILE: mirage.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POVRAY 3.6 

TOOLS USED: 
    POVRAY + Paint Shop pro (PNG-JPG) 

RENDER TIME: 
    37 minutes 29s

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium III 933 Mhz 256 Mo RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

<Don't believe what you see !>

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Create the dunes with an isosurface inspired from the POVray's file
'Benchmark.pov'
The swimming pool, the table, the chairs are CSG
The parasol is a CSG difference between superellipsoid & box
The palmtrees are inc files from Tom Aust : www.aust-anfertigungen.de - with
permission
I can do a larger swimming pool, but I want to see more sand than water !