TITLE: Soda Straw Stalactite
NAME: Tim Glover
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: tglover@nettally.com
WEBPAGE: none
TOPIC: Water
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: tite.jpg
ZIPFILE: tite.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Pov Ray 3.02 for windows, watcom version optimized for pentiums

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray 3.01 for windows, build 2483

RENDER TIME: 
    6 min 59 seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    233 mhtz pentium with 64 mbytes ram win 95

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    Water is the great creator and destroyer of caves.
The slow dissolution of limestone forms the voids we call caves, but
the slow trickle of water from above, once the cave fills with air, forms
stalactites and stalagmites witch tend to refill the void.

This image was inspired by a photo I took several years ago in a small cave 
in Marianna, Florida.  It is a soda-straw stalactite (less than the diameter of

a pencil and hollow) just before a drop of water falls from its tip.  It is at
this moment that a small amoun of calcium carbonate is deposited onto the
bottom
edge of the soda-straw, and the stalactite grows an inperceptable amount.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    The cave roof, back wall,
water drop, soda straw, and "rocks" were modeled in Moray, as were 
the textures.  Once lighting and composition was roughed in, an include
file (author's name not in the file and I couldn't find it in my 
documentation) called rock320.inc was substituted for the elongated
sphere place-holders.  Final tweeking was by hand on the .pov file in
povray editor.