TITLE: nk_sea.jpg
NAME: Nico Kocks
COUNTRY: germany
EMAIL: cox@gmx.at
WEBPAGE: www.kocksi.de (german only)
TOPIC: Sea
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: nk_sea.jpg
ZIPFILE: nk_sea.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    povray 3.1g

TOOLS USED: 
    SPatch, Corel Photopaint to convert the BMP to JPG

RENDER TIME: 
    1h 15

HARDWARE USED: 
    PII 350 MHz



IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

First of all, I would like to say sorry for my bad english - if my old
englishteacher could read this, he would kill me...
This is my first image I submit to the IRTC, YIPPIEE!!!!
The image doesn_t have a special reason why I created it. I just readed the
topic and I had the idea of a small whale-watcher
team which is diving near group of whales. Don_t ask what kind of whales these
are, they_re a product of my fantasy.
 

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Most parts of this image were created in SPatch. The only things I made with POV
were the water, the sky and the textures.
So, it wasn_t really difficult. The only problem was to create realistic looking
water. First I tried it with a bump_map, but 
it looked too checkered, so I used wrinkles. 
The SPatch parts were quiet easy; I modeled the different parts of the object in
different layers. After exporting it to POV, 
I gave every layer its own texture and saved the scene as inc-file. That_s all.
If you have any questions, write it to my 
Mail adress.