TITLE: Among the Crystal Reefs NAME: Phillip A. Conophy COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: pconophy@walldata.com TOPIC: School COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: spcfish.jpg ZIPFILE: spcfish.zip RENDERER USED: povray 3.01 TOOLS USED: FRGen v1.4, Raw2Pov v1.8 RENDER TIME: 2.5hrs HARDWARE USED: PPro150 DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The fish model is a CSG creation primarily pre-planned on a pad of graph paper. The model has 6 control points. One for each eye, one for each fin, and 2 for the tail. The fish have primarily a chrome texture while their fins have a varient chrome with a ripple. The eyes and engine exhaust are halos. The crystal asteroids were generated with the aid of Steve Anger's FRGen and Raw2Pov utilities. I gave FRGen the Sphere.Fr file as input with level 3 recursion and noise scaling. The resultant Raw file was given to Raw2Pov for conversion and smoothing. Both of the asteroids visible in the scene are the same object viewed from different angles and with different scaling. Each has some varient of the Ruby_Glass stock texture. I had difficulty generating a star field that was not too faded with anti-aliasing. In the end, I rendered the star field as an independant scene without anti-aliasing then projected it onto a back-plane as an image_map. The backdrop also included the nebula which was created as a pair of halos which are scaled into oblong spheres then overlaped.