EMAIL:			alexandre.dorion@rogers.com
NAME:			Alexandre Dorion
TOPIC:			Speed
COPYRIGHT:		I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE:			"Time to Slow Down"
COUNTRY:		Canada
WEBPAGE:		N/A
RENDERER USED:		POV-Ray 3.6
TOOLS USED:		L3DT, Moray 3.5
RENDER TIME:		0 hours 10 minutes 18 seconds (618 seconds)
HARDWARE USED:		HP Compaq dc7100, Pentium-4 3.2GHz, 1GB RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

The natural reaction to the topic of 'Speed' is to think of something going fast. I decided to illustrate the opposite. All the elements in the scene move or change slowly, including the sailboat, the birds, the moon, the landscape and finally the stars.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

This is my first submission to the IRTC.

The moon is based on an image map from 'The Celestia Motherlode' (http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/moon.php) which provides fantastic maps which are freely distributable for NON-commercial use.

The all other textures are coded directly, which I think is my current weakness with POV-Ray. I avoided having to do any detailed textures by designing a dark scene more reliant on shadows to create realism.

The island heightfield was created using L3DT 2.3a.

The definitions for the sailboat and the ducks were exported from Moray 3.5.
The sailboat was created by hand and is very basic, given that it was intended to be seen from a distance.
The ducks are modified from the rubber duck available on the Moray website (http://www.stmuc.com/moray/metoys.html)