EMAIL: sgowers@us.oracle.com
NAME:  Steve Gowers
TOPIC: Summer
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.0 for Windows
TOOLS USED: Paintshop for file conversion
RENDER TIME: 58 min
HARDWARE USED: Pentium P90
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Bucket of  Shells

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
I wanted to try out more detailed textures with some of the new POV features so
spent 
proportionally effort on the modelling - the shell shapes are iterated objects
based the 
ideas in swirlbox.pov by Eduard Schwan which are included with POV. 

The textures are all my own work. I'm happy with both the sea and the sand
textures - the colouring in the sand I stumbled across trying to do something
else. If  I'd
had more spare time I would have worked on the shell textures some more

An alternate name for this picture could be 1001 uses for Crackle,  I've found
that it allows
some useful 'roughening' which is helpful reducing the plastic look of some
renderings - its
that that makes the more realistic highlights on the sea for example. Also
rendered without
antialiasing to conserve the grainy look.