TITLE: flyfish NAME: Mark Honzell EMAIL: j.honzell@worldnet.att.net TOPIC: Flight COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: flyfish.jpg ZIPFILE: flyfish.zip RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.0 TOOLS USED: Moray 2.0 RENDER TIME: 32 hours HARDWARE USED: 486/DX2, 20M RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: My journeys across the oceans for the last 20 years have shown me many wonderful discoveries, including this flying fish. At night, shallow waters give strange illusions in their depths as light twists about the formations below. These fish leap out in fear as groups, flying 50 to 60 feet, to escape illusory dangers. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: This is my sixth drawing with any form of rendering program. I am very thankful to the POV-Ray team for making such a tool available to express such ideas. The only special feature outside of POV-Ray used was a modeller for the body of the fish. I could have used spheres, but each fish would have required about 100 of them and with a 486, this was faster. There are no image overlays. The fish scales were an interesting effect of using the hexagon command on a curved surface with each of the three colors graded. The moonlight reflecting as rays occured by making the water "dented" and filtered with more than one color. And the splashes are the julia_fractal command at work. Anti-aliasing didn't really add much to the detail and without it, rendering time is about 4 hours on my old machine.