TITLE: A Pool In The Sand
NAME: Matthew C. Harber
COUNTRY: United States of America
EMAIL: WebSpinner@InfiniteThread.com
WEBPAGE: http://members.aol.com/mcharber, http://www.InfiniteThread.com
TOPIC: Contrast
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: asand.jpg
ZIPFILE: asand.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1e - windows

TOOLS USED: 
    Paint Shop Pro for the height field manipulations.

RENDER TIME: 
    31 minutes, 27 seconds for main scene.

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium II, 233 mhz, 64MB Ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

  In a remote, desolate, dry, dusty, inhospitable, blasted place, the weary
  traveler comes upon an incongruous scene - a seemingly cool, wet, and
  inviting pool, beckoning irresistably.  An amazing contrast - how can
  something like this exist out here?  But, yet, the sand seems to drift over
  the edge of the pool, the chair and umbrella cast shadows - it must be
  real.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

  All coding done on the bare metal - in DOS edit.  No modelers used.
  Scene includes a ground fog and a sky sphere.  The buttes are from the same
  height field - scaled, translated, and rotated differently.  The rocks are
  randomly generated and placed spheres with another concave height field
  subtracted from them four times (top, bottom, left, right) to give them the
  shard appearance.  The sand dunes are yet another height field generated
  with the waves pattern, scaled and textured as needed.  The lens flare
  comes from Chris Colefax's LENSFLAR.INC include file.  I used WOOD11 from
  POVLAB.INC for the chair frame, all other textures are defined here.  There
  is also a light source down in the pool to make it glow.