EMAIL: dom.rossi@wanadoo.fr NAME: Dominique Rossi TOPIC: Spirit of Asia COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Halong Bay COUNTRY: France WEBPAGE: No web page RENDERER USED: < povray 3.0 > TOOLS USED: No tools (excepted GIMP for the JPG conversion) RENDER TIME: 2 hours max HARDWARE USED: Pentium 266 MHZ IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A view on the Halong bay, early in the morning. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: One Height field for the montains with rotation and scaling to appear with different shapes at the camera location. The height field was created with a POV script 'reliefhalong' (an agate pigment with a spot light) The vegetation on the left is an field of numerous bicubic patches For the sky, I used a superposition of 3 pigment maps; one for the yellowish sun, another for the clouds, and the third , non visible, for the upper part of the sky, which make dark green reflects on the water. The sampan is a bicubic patch and the net is made with torus and cylinders (It was not possible to use a texture because it generates bad results with the ground fog. The man is just a flat polygon. The water is a hightly reflective surface with small bumps, covered by a bozo pigment map to realize the wind effects.