TITLE: Through The Looking Glass
NAME: Kent D. Johnson
COUNTRY: United States of America
EMAIL: kentdj@revealed.net
TOPIC: Water
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: waterwin.jpg
ZIPFILE: waterwin.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POVRay 3.1a for Windows

TOOLS USED: 
    Micrografx Picture Publisher 7

RENDER TIME: 
    About 6 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    PentiumPro 200MHz - WinNT Workstation 4SP3 - 128MB RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

It all started back in the 'Flight' round when Admin Bill 
Marrs submitted an image titled 'winseat'.  It pretty well 
got raked over the coals.  But not nearly so much as when 
another Admin (I forget which one) submitted another version 
of the 'winseat' image a few rounds later.  As one of the 
Associate Admins I am hereby fulfilling one of my obligations 
by submitting my own 'winseat' image.

Basically, this is the ever-familiar view from the window of 
the winseat plane.  Only problem is that the plane has crashed 
into the ocean.  As a final bit of revenge, a couple of fish 
use the opportunity to peer into the 'fishbowl'.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

I started by copying Bill Marrs' original source file for 
his 'winseat' image from the 'Flight' round (I think he used
POVSB to build his image).  After getting that working under 
POV3.1 I began modifying it for this round.  The ocean is a 
heightfield created in Picture Publisher by drawing several 
overlapping circular gradients, running a 'twirl' filter on 
it and then blurring heavily. The ocean heightfield is 
intersected with a vertical plane running through the center 
of the window opening.

Since the ocean is partially transparent, I had to put a 
'black box' (no pun intended) at the far end of the scene so 
the clouds from the sky sphere wouldn't show through.

Finally, I needed to add a couple of fish so you could tell 
you were looking at water.  So I asked fellow associate admin 
Sonya Roberts if I could borrow the fish from her 'Summer' 
entry - a request she graciously obliged.

As a last request here, please don't spend much (any?) time 
commenting on this image.  I know it's pretty bad :-)