TITLE: Hunters NAME: Alan Shaklee COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: ashaklee@wcg-corp.com WEBPAGE: N/A TOPIC: Contrast COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: hunters.jpg ZIPFILE: hunters.zip RENDERER USED: Povray 3.1g TOOLS USED: Spatch for models, Paintshop Pro to convert to Jpg RENDER TIME: 12 minutes HARDWARE USED: AMD K6-300 w/ 64 megs ram IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I originally started out with a desert-and-water theme... IE boats and fishs swimming in a desert, with the camera above the water. As I was creating the sperm whale and the submarine, I was struck by the contrast of the two. Both are water-born creatures, yet one is organic and the other artificial. Both are hunters, yet one kills for food, and the other for less tangible reasons. So I abandoned the desert idea, and produced a meeting of three whales and a sub in a shallow sea. Is it a chance meeting in the middle of the ocean? Are they studing each other, asking questions that other cannot answer? Or are they simply hunting their own prey? DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Both the submarine and the sperm whale were created in Spatch and exported to .inc files. I had to do some scaling of the sperm whale (about 50 meters) to make it smaller than the sub (about 100 meters). The hardest part was the ocean fogging. I tried to make it work with media statements, but I am not that skilled yet. So I used a standard fog. And, yes, it is supposed to be dark. These are hunters who hunt by sound, not sight. Lighting is a standard area light, for sort of a fuzzy feeling.