TITLE: Boats race
NAME: Paul Flanzy
COUNTRY: France
EMAIL: paul.flanzy@jouy.inra.fr
WEBPAGE: none
TOPIC: water
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: 00pfboat.jpg
ZIPFILE: 00pfboat.zip
RENDERER USED: 

    POVRay for windows version 3.1 (thanks a lot to Pov Team)


TOOLS USED: 

    Micrographix Picture Publisher to transform the picture in Jpeg format
    and nothing else


RENDER TIME: 

    2h 50 min 


HARDWARE USED: 

    P II 300 with 128 Mo of memory 


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Three boats at the end of a race,they have to reach the final line .
Perhaps the winner will be the one on the left.

My goal here is NOT to simulate the reality but to play with ideas materials,
textures, and a few objects.

I like the quiet water the color of the sky and the transparency of the boats


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


This is my first submission and I'm.very new in using Povray.
The picture uses the new features of povray 3.1 m_dia,interior and #macro.
In order to use the m_dia and interior feature I have replaced planes by three
boxes.

The first box at z=20 simulate a z plane in the background with a
low emitting m_dia and a very transparent and irided texture for the clouds.

The second box y=-0.50 contents a high emitting blue-green m_dia
surrounded with a high reflexive and transparent texture
so we can see not only the sky and the boats reflected ON water
but also the parts of the boats wich are IN water.

The third plane y=-8.5 use a semi-transparent texture to modify a little beat
The color of water.

The bouys are made from : two cones,two cylinders and two spheres
they are yellow to contrast with water's color.

Finally the boats :

I've wrote a macro (not included in the zip) wich permit to put any object
on a mathematical curve Ax4+Bx3+Cx2+D here this macro was simplificated
the curve is X2 and each boat contents 150 spheres.

The light and camera are standard one from povwin.

 The .zip file includes the POVRay source 
to render the same image use the following parameters
Width=800 Height=600 Antialias=On 
Sampling_method=1
Antialias_Threshold=0.2 Antialias_Depth=4