TITLE: Alien Pool Party
NAME: Jason Dinger
COUNTRY: USA (currently living in Germany)
EMAIL: jasondinger@hotmail.com
WEBPAGE: N/A
TOPIC: Water
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: plparty.jpg
ZIPFILE: plparty.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3

TOOLS USED: 
    pencil and paper

RENDER TIME: 
    test renders 1 hour 14 minutes, total
             final render: 23 minutes
                    total: 1 hour 37 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 166 w/MMX-40 MB Ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

 A group of fun loving extra terrestrials relax in the summer heat
in their pool.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

 Everything was created with POV-Ray's text editor. All textures were
created by me (except the sky background, which is included in POV's
"textures.v2" file). 
 The aliens are blobs. The alien reaching for the beach ball has a
crackle normal and the one on the "horse floaty" has a bozo normal.
The "horse floaty" itself is a torus and a blob, each with the same
bozo color_map pattern and (phong .9) applied as a finish to give it
that "plastic" look.
 The beach ball has a radial normal and a gradient_x color_map; plus
(phong .9) for the "plastic" look.
 The pool water is a cube that is scaled really big. It is partially
transparent and has a reflective finish (as well as phong and 
specular). The pool wall is a cube that is scaled and given a wrinkle
normal.