TITLE: Thin Ice NAME: Greg Gargett COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: ggargett@attbi.com TOPIC: Winter COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: irtcwint.jpg RENDERER USED: Povray 3.1g TOOLS USED: Moray 3.3a, Blob Sculptor for Windows RENDER TIME: 40 hours HARDWARE USED: Gateway P850 XL IMAGE DESCRIPTION: You've fallen through the thin ice DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: A simple recipe: Create 1 GSC bowl for the pond bed Fill bowl with murky scattering media water Top the water with a layer of absorption media ice Cut a hole and cracks in the ice with a heightfield Fill the hole with slush created with a heightfield based on the cutting heightfield image so the fit is exact Sprinkle trans-sweep ice chunks in the hole Add 1 slightly greenish pointlight Create an arm Bezier tube jacket sleave Super-quad cylinder sleave cuff Blob hand created in Blob Sculptor Add air bubbles to taste Render with 100-sample focus blur for extra smoothness to get the image you see Now spend two frustrating weeks trying to make the scene better and not be able to do it