EMAIL: peter@table76.demon.co.uk NAME: Peter Murray TOPIC: Water COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Safely afloat in the basket WEBPAGE: http://www.table76.demon.co.uk/POV/ COUNTRY: England RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1a Macintosh PPC TOOLS USED: Graphic Converter to convert pict images to png imagemaps Adobe Photoshop to convert the final image to jpg and add text RENDER TIME: 0 hours 13 minutes 59.0 seconds (839 seconds) HARDWARE USED: Apple Macintosh G3 300MHz Desktop IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The flood leaves the street deserted except for a bear DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: After considering some other ideas, I was finally inspired by the news to do a flooded image. I needed a focus, and decided not to leave the bear swimming, but put it into the picnic basket from an earlier round. The sinister underlighting on his face seems to be caused by reflections from the water, combined with the shadowing effect of the basket lid. The trees were slightly revised from their appearance in an earlier round; I tried to change the colour map to reflect autumnal colours, but they're too small to see any difference. The drink can was originally modelled for an idea I had for the Elements round, but never used when I dropped that idea. The Povsi and Dr Povray can designs were created to avoid infringing any trademarks/giving free advertising :-) . The building was created for this round, but suffered from having to compete with other demands on my time, preparing for something that's been postponed anyway... so I could have fixed the problems with the buildings, and added the interior details I didn't have time to do. I realised too late I hadn't remembered to model an object to put the text on, so yet again they've been added in Photoshop :-( . I think I remembered to include all the files. Rendering notes: The light area at the bottom and left of the image seems to be just an overly-bright reflection. While rendering and re-rendering it over the past three hours to fix minor problems, I happened to see a news programme about floods, and was amazed again at how reality keeps managing to include so many little details... with a few more days, maybe... but it's after midnight here, and it seems like cheating to take advantage of the time zone differences. So... what's the next topic, and does it have a place for a teddy bear :-) ?