EMAIL: rmjudge@swissonline.ch (try this alternative mailadress when you get no answer because i am abroad for months: rolandincyprus@yahoo.de) NAME: Roland Muenger TOPIC: Out Of Place COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: The Misused Aquarium COUNTRY: Switzerland WEBPAGE: - RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.6 TOOLS USED: only POV-Ray with the following exceptions: - Tomtree include files by Tom Aust (www.aust-manufaktur.de) for the palm - Cabeza-1s.wings file by Jaime Vives Piquerez (www.ignorancia.org) for the head of the pilot - Wings3D 0.98.26 for export (from wings to lwo) - 3DWin 5.2 for conversion (from lwo to pov) - IrfanView 3.92 for conversion (from bmp to jpg) RENDER TIME: 13 min 22 sec HARDWARE USED: P 2.66 GHz 512 MB Ram IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The name of AKWS (All Kind of Water Services) Inc., formerly AWS (Advanced Water Systems), is their programme also. Obliged to high commercial ethics they gave up their former practice to water the plants of their customers using populated fishtanks - after the repeated protests of militant animal welfarists. Now is about 0.5 seconds before the pilot's opening of the water discharge valve by remote control. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I did not use any specific techniques. The buildings and the helicopter are CSG objects. The mountain is a heightfield. The complete source files are ready for use.