TITLE: El Nino Revisited
NAME: Paul Vaughan
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: paulvaughan@altavista.com
TOPIC: Sea
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: semamer2.jpg
ZIPFILE: semamer2.zip
RENDERER USED: 

    Povray 3.1g for Windows 95 


TOOLS USED: 

    Paint Shop Pro ........ .tga --> .jpg, crop, signature, truck detailing
Gifs
    Quick Basic ..... make temp program to slice and dice truck mesh


RENDER TIME: 

   Start ... 3 days on 486/66Mhz   Finish ..... 2 days on P1/80Mhz


HARDWARE USED: 
    486DX / 66Mhz & 486 Overdrived to P1/80 Mhz


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

     This represents the cleanup that is still going on (to some extent)
resulting from the immense
  water from the sky resulting from our bout with El Nino a while back. During
the peak of flooded
  streets one of the workers at our plant borrowed his in-laws semi cab to
commute out of
  the mountains. 


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

      Clouds: Multi-layered planes each with a "cloud" pattern. Idea  from
"Canyon" by Jaime Piqueres
      Truck Cab: Started as stock mesh object. Used Quick Basic to create a
quick-and-dirty piece of
             code to slice and dice the body into separate pieces that could be
covered with detailing
            supplied by brother-in-law Bill Cooper.