TITLE: Ocean Lab
NAME: Tim Den Besten
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: denbestn@drenthe.net
TOPIC: The Laboratory
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: oceanlab.jpg
ZIPFILE: oceanlab.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.1 / Mega POV 6.0

TOOLS USED: 
    MGI Photosuite

RENDER TIME: 
    ~8 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    Celeron 333


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Laboratory on the Ocean... OK, maybe this could have been entered in the "SEA"
topic in August 2000.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Painted the Island, Island vegitation and Beach layers with MGI photosuite.
I used POV to generate the underwater rocks, touched up with MGI PS.

I went through multiple iterations with the "lab" and finally decided to use the
MadPipe macro by Gilles Tran.  I defined my own decorations which are included.
 I also modified the pipedeco.inc file to handle dynamic number of
decorations.

The Island Palm Trees are from TOMTREE.inc by AUST.  They are randomly placed.


The Rail system relies on Chris Colefax's SPLINE.INC and LINK.INC includes. 
Spline calculates point to point and link links 'em up.  I also modified the
link macro (probably unnecessarily) to fix the scaling of my link object.

The submarine is a blob object with an MGI PS painted image file mapped on it.

The spheres in the water are torus' combined with clear spheres.

The water surface is an isosurface.

Some textures may have changed since the image was rendered.

Not all includes are in the zip.