TITLE: The Snowflake Melting On The Warm Wind NAME: Gena Obukhov COUNTRY: Russia EMAIL: obukhov@mail.com WEBPAGE: http://propro.ru/go/gallery.html TOPIC: Forces of Nature COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: gonature.jpg ZIPFILE: gonature.zip RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.6 TOOLS USED: Photoshop RENDER TIME: 30 min. HARDWARE USED: P4 2.6GHz 1Gb IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Just snowflake melting on the warm wind. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I rendered snowflake number 5 from my collection of snowflakes: http://propro.ru/go/Wshop/objects/objects.html Then I slightly modified it in Photoshop and used as a heightfield in final rendering. Wrinkled camera did all necessary distortions.