TITLE: Timeless Scene
NAME: Tim Glover
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: tglover@nettally.com
WEBPAGE: N/A
TOPIC: Sea
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: timeless.jpg
ZIPFILE: timeless.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray for Windows version 3.02

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray

RENDER TIME: 
    20 minutes with other things running

HARDWARE USED: 
    500 Mhz pentium - Win 95

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    A scene that could be as much as 400 million years old.
Back to the Devonian.  Further back before the dinosaurs than we are 
ahead of them.  Or could be found (if you knew EXACTLY where to look) 
even today.

Algae, horseshoe crabs and crinoids.  A shallow sea.  The sun.




DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


I was messing around with textures and found one that worked
OK as a shallow sea surface.  Then I needed to populate the sea.  
Some of my favorite critters are the "left-overs", the "living fossils".
Algae was a given.  Gotta have plants.  (Algae thanks to: Model created 
by Drew Costigan, copyright 2000 3dplants.com "This model is free for 
commercial or non-commercial use.")

Next came the crinoid segments -- all done with CSG and extrusions by me.

Finally the horseshoe crabs.  Again -- lots of extrusions, CSG and a couple
of well-plaed spheres for eyes.


(Source code has different name than pic -- I changed pic name.)