TITLE: Peace
NAME: Jason Lloyd
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: jlloyd@wpmail.code3.com
WEBPAGE: None
TOPIC: Water
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: jslwater.jpg
ZIPFILE: jslwater.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    HF-Lab for Height fields, Genisis for vegitation.

RENDER TIME: 
    5.5 Hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium II 300MHz 64mb Ram 5gb total HD.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

     To me, water means life.  This is a scene depicting the center of that
life.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

     The surrounding hillsides are obviously a height field, Created from
HF-Lab.  The
        trees were placed manually with loops coded by hand.  The water is just
a plane
        with a surface normal, and an interior with IOR.  I experimented a
little with
        media in this one, creating the faint fog you see.  I think it was a
pretty
        good effect.  The Ferns and Trees come from Genisis by Joerg Schrammel. 
The
        grass was created by hand, and is composed of 300 triangles per mesh. 
Total
        triangles are about 180,000 in number.  Thank you Sonya Roberts for the
pointer
        on custom bounding.  The stones are also meshes, created with a utility
called
        Orb-Cyl created by John Beale.  And as allways, thanks to the Pov-team,
for
        their persistance in creating the best freeware renderer in the world!
(IMHO)
        -Jason