TITLE: Drowning...
NAME: Ben Chambers
COUNTRY: US
EMAIL: chambers.ben@juno.com
WEBPAGE: http://i.dont.com/have/a/page.yet.html
TOPIC: Night
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITIO COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: bcdrown.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POVRay 3.0

TOOLS USED: 


RENDER TIME: 
    ~15min

HARDWARE USED: 
    AMD K6-166 32m RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Someone is drowning.  Looking up through the water at some bubbles and the
moon.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

(I favor the KISS principle, which is why I am so amazed when people put a
lot of detail into scenes)

The sky is a bozo map of dark blue and bright white mapped onto a sphere.

The moon is a sphere with the wrinkle pattern applied as a pigment, with
ambient 1.

The water surface is a plane with two wave normal maps averaged, dark blue
pigment (with high transmit), high specular and ior 1.05

The bubbles are simply spheres placed randomly.

The fadeout around the edges was accomplished with an onion pattern mapped
onto a plane just above the camera.  The color map goes from transmit 1 to
transmit 0.

The blur is a focal blur (I tried jitter, but couldn't get the same grainy
effect with it).