TITLE: IcyLake
NAME: Aakin N. Patel
EMAIL: aakin@aakin.net
TOPIC: Winter
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: icylake.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    povray 3.5 beta

TOOLS USED: 
    gimp

RENDER TIME: 
    56+ hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    Intel PIII 1 Ghz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

An icy lake up in the mountains.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Used heightfields for the ice and the background rocks/cliffs. Radiosity helped
tinge everything the right color. Both the water and the ice had a photons
setting.

I used a slope texturemap for the background cliffs.

Image was originally rendered at 3200x2400, to view on a high resolution
monitor. I was unable to rerender later at a reduced resolution due to the beta
version changing, so gimp was used to reduce it to 800x500, convert to jpeg,
and add the copyright notice.

The long render time was for the higher resolution image - I imagine it'd be
significantly lower for this size. 

Email me if you want the source.