TITLE: Deepsea Research
NAME: Fredrik Pettersson
COUNTRY: SWEDEN
EMAIL: frepe@ifm.liu.se
WEBPAGE: ---
TOPIC: Sea
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: deepsea.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.1g

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray, Photoshop

RENDER TIME: 
    24 hours?

HARDWARE USED: 
    PentiumIII-400


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


When I saw that the topic was sea about 500 ideas immediately popped up into my
head:
Submarines, divers, aquariums... After I while though, I concentrating some of
these 
ideas into one... A deep sea research station with windows and a skylight out
into 
the dark ocean, and inside aquariums with strange creatures caught using an 
underwater vehicle.

The picture was supposed to be quite dark, only illuminated by the aquariums.
The bright
insides of the aquariums would then become a contrast to the rest of the
picture.

Yoy can see for yourselfes... I didnt have time to realise most of my ideas...
and the 
texturing is horrible. i didn't even have time to make a final render, this is
just a 
testrender for checking the lights.
I also jpegged it much to hard resulting in really lousy quality._

This is my first submission to IRTC.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Most things are modelled from scratch using Moray basic shapes. 
The rocks at the bottom of the big aquarium are made from a heightfield derived
of a
color-picture found on the internet.
Some of the fishes are also textured by bitmaps.

I have used quite many lights:
One fading pointlight in the center of each aquarium, and at least one in each
aquarium
light-ramp. In addition to this there is a red light in the sluis (or what it is
called)
and one camera-light to smooth the shadows. Inside the big aquarium I have put
an area-light
, being the main-light-source.

Well, that's about it. I rendered it at 800x500 3x3 antialiasing the submitted
rendering 
just to check that my lightning gave the right atmosphere.

Next time I will try a simpler scene, giving more time to modelling.