TITLE: TSUNAMI
NAME: Claudius Klein
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: cklein@cityweb.de
TOPIC: Sea
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: ck_tsu.jpg
ZIPFILE: ck_tsu.zip
RENDERER USED: 

   MegaPOV 0.5a


TOOLS USED: 

   Paintshop Pro, IrfanView
   link.inc by Chris Colefax
   birds.inc by Neil Alexander


RENDER TIME: 
    about 5 hours


HARDWARE USED: 

   AMD K6-2 @333 MHz w/ 96 MB RAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


It's a sunny and quiet morning somewhere in the pacific ocean. But the 
sea can be both beautiful and dangerous. A tsunami (jap. 'harbour wave')
has harmlessly travelled at the speed of an airliner across the wide 
open sea. Tsunamis are seismic sea waves with huge wavelengths and small 
amplitudes. But now, approaching the shoreline, the wave reduces its 
speed and instead builds up to an enormous height. Let us hope there is 
no one near the beaches! 


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The tsunami is basicly an isosurface sine wave with some distortion 
and granite normal modifiers. Ocean water was also completely done by 
isosurface. No image maps, everything is procedural - except the sign. 
You probably will never see such a type of tsunami in real life, but I 
liked the concept of a very big wave on the horizon. The aspect ratio 
of this image was set to 3:2 because I wanted it to look like a 'real' 
photo. Finally I was running out of time, so some details are not as 
perfect as they should have been. JPEG left some nasty artefacts...