TITLE: The Element Of Surprise!
NAME: Joost Egelie
COUNTRY: Belgium
EMAIL: joost.egelie@skynet.be
WEBPAGE: http://www.skynet.be/users/81504/ but it needs updating...
TOPIC: Elements
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: surprise.jpg
ZIPFILE: surprise.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray Unofficial 3.0 beta by The Smellenbergh Team

TOOLS USED: 
    Adobe Photoshop 5.0

RENDER TIME: 
    5hrs 55min 22sec

HARDWARE USED: 
    Apple Macintosh Performa 6200/36MB(54 with VM) running Motorola
speed604.lib on a PPC603@75MHz chip

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    Let the shivers creep up your back at the thought of this
icy-cold shower awaiting you... The Element Of Surprise!!!

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    I just took a bucket and measured its
dimensions, to put it in a lathe. Same thing done with the water in it,
although I had to alter its coordinates slightly, for POV couldn't tell wether
a ray hit the bucket or the water - gave a pretty messy look (i.e. The Fly)...

Furtheron, I used PhotoShop to make the brick pattern. I was astonished by the
real look it gave! In additition, I put a bump pattern underneath it, so even
in the lighter areas it looked 3D.

Well, what else is there to say? I used Smellenberghs' UnOfficial POV-Ray Beta.
With its beter implemented editor and template-manager, it's way ahead of the
future. And it's faster than the official Mac-version too.

Contact the Smellenbergh team at smellenbergh@skynet.be .

Contact ME at joost.egelie@skynet.be .

Have FUN!!! (in three dimensions!)