TITLE: Night Puddle NAME: Ron Ratovsky EMAIL: watrphnix@hotmail.com TOPIC: Night COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: ntpuddle.jpg RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.02 TOOLS USED: sPatch RENDER TIME: 13h, 39m, 12s HARDWARE USED: Pentium 200MHz MMX, 32M of memory. IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I've noticed in the mailing list that people were thinking of creating images mainly relating to the dark side of the night theme. I've decided to make a simple image showing the somewhat more quiet side of the night. I also figured that doing an image concentrating on what is sometimes referred to as the microcosmos would be interesting and fun to be done. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: * Sky - The sky, stars, moon and clouds are different layers of a skysphere. The stars are a modified version of one of the starfields from the .ini files received with POV. The moon is based on the creating a sun tutorial from the POV manual. * Grass + Water Drops - They were all made using sPatch. * Stones - Blobs, with normal settings causing them to look deformed. * Flower - Using standard objects and CSG. * Snail - Many spheres translated and rotated in a specific order + a cone at the end. * Water Puddles - Very flat blobs thus creating an irregular shape still being flat. The puddles have soft edges by creating a bit bigger puddle shape (using CSG to remove the shape that already exists) and for each bigger part, the transmittance values were increased. * Light - Area light of 3*3 with adaptive 1 to create somewhat softer shadows. --IMPORTANT NOTE--: The image -must- be viewed in a completely dark room. PC users need not adjust the gamma correction for this image as far as I know. I wish I'd known how to direct MAC users how to set the gamma properly but unfortunately I can't. Viewing the image in conditions other than that may lead to missing a few fine details. ANOTHER NOTE: Unfortunately, I couldn't submit the source files since I didn't get the chance to arrange all of them neatly. If you have questions and/or comments about the image and how it's been created, feel free to direct them to the email address given in this document.