TITLE: Mud
NAME: John K. Dewhurst
COUNTRY: South Africa
EMAIL: dewhurst@physnet.phys.wits.ac.za
WEBPAGE: ---
TOPIC: Unbelievable
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: mud2.jpg
ZIPFILE: mud2.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POVray 3.1a

TOOLS USED: 
    Corel Photopaint, Spatch, L-Parser

RENDER TIME: 
    About 7 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium Pro 200

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


  "Unbelievable!", wispered the ranger. We peered forward.
   There in the saturated ground was a fresh footprint of
   something very large and undeniably human...

I am, of course, refering to the legendary Bigfoot which
supposedly wanders around forests in the North-Western USA.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The mud was a height field drawn in Corel and carefully
textured to appear damp. The beer can (Bigfoot Ale, naturally)
was made with SPatch. L-Parser created the tree. The variable
reflection of the water was done by splitting the plane into
many small segments each with different reflectivity.

The inspiration for this picture was a drawing by M. C. Escher.

JKD