TITLE: Storm in a Teacup
NAME: Tom Melly
COUNTRY: UK
EMAIL: tom@tomandlu.co.uk
WEBPAGE: http://www.tomandlu.co.uk/
TOPIC: Sea
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: tmstormc.jpg
ZIPFILE: tmstormc.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    MEGAPOV 3.1g.wmp.0.5a (Win95)

TOOLS USED: 
    None

RENDER TIME: 
    39 hours, 33 mins, 13 secs (Parse Time 1 01, Render Time
39:32:12)

HARDWARE USED: 
    P90 64mb (home), P2 300mhz (work, for final render)


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    Not really much to say, except that, if you are unfamiliar
with the phrase, "a storm in a teacup" means a fuss about nothing.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    I'm not that happy with most of this
picture - the sea texture is wrong, not enough detail in the background (a
misunderstanding between me and the focal blur megapov post-process), no
table-cloth or other table-furniture, shitty texture on the lightning,  etc.

Still, I'm happy with the modelling of the cup, and also that no image-maps were
harmed in the production of this picture (everything is CSG, standard POV
pattern, or Iso).

The cloud-code is a late addition (my original clouds looked like nothing on
god's earth), and I am indebted to Kevin Wampler (for the original code) and
Mick Hazelgrove (for his useful changes and comments to Kevin's code).