TITLE: Atlantis, Last Day        

NAME: Paul Vaughan
COUNTRY: USA        

EMAIL: bcooper761@aol.com
TOPIC: Water
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: lastday.jpg
ZIPFILE: lastday.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.0 (The last version to use "halo")
               DOS version in window under Win95 on 386DX/33 :)
        

TOOLS USED: 
    Paint Shop Pro to draw background volcano
               and to convert to jpeg / Gforge for island height_field
        

RENDER TIME: 
    7 Days, 4 hours on friend's 486/66
        

HARDWARE USED: 
    386/33 for workup
               486/66 for final render
        

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    The Atlantians flee as their beloved homeland goes
                    up (down?) in volcanic splendor. 


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

     Lava induced ocean steam and volcanic cloud ... halo.
     Foreground peninsula ... height_field using Gforge.
     Background volcano ... paper thin "cardboard prop" from quick
          draw of a volcano in PSP.
     Hot Air Balloons & Ships ... mesh objects from stock.
     Sky ... straight out of sky.inc.
     Temple ... a whole lot of CSGing.
      
      That shadow on the ocean was not planned ... it's coming from the
     halo container for the volcano cloud and I couldn't figure out
     any way to get rid of it.