TITLE: World's End
NAME: Angela Perry
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: angelaperry@webcombo.net
WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/dawn_phoenix_2000
TOPIC: Sea
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: endworld.jpg
ZIPFILE: endworld.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    old-fashioned pen and paper

RENDER TIME: 
    10 minutes 37 seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Very little was known about the sea until the early explorers braved the
unknown. Luckily, they didn't live in my world...*grin*

The image is a graphical depiction of early explorers fears. It also embodies my
own feelings toward the unknown, as I strike out to learn raytracing and enter
a new community.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The part of the boat I spent the most time creating was the ladder
rigging--ironically, you can barely see it. I used several simple algebraic
formulas to create macros that would build the ladder from cylinders.

Because of technical restraints (a computer from the Jurassic period), I did not
use any tools besides POV-Ray. The scene is made up of simple shapes and CSG
objects, with a couple superellipsoid objects thrown in.

I chose to use to the "wrinkle" pattern over "ripples" or "waves," because the
deep sea did not seem to look right otherwise. I defined a few colors and
patterns, but most came from the .inc files included with POV-Ray.