TITLE: Adrift
NAME: Jonathon H. Rogers
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: reactor_x@hotmail.com
WEBPAGE: sorry, not yet...
TOPIC: Contrast
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: j_clouds.jpg
ZIPFILE: j_clouds.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POVray 3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    PhotoShop for conversion only, HF-lab for the mountains.

RENDER TIME: 
    2h 36m

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium III @ 650Mhz, 128M RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

        The derelict sailboat, the tattered remains of its rigging drifting in
the winds of the building storm...The forces of nature being interrupted by a
single, man-made object that has been abandoned long ago...An unnatural object
in the midst of all that is natural.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

        This image actually came as a surprise to me, it wasn't my intention at
all to do an ocean scene.  I had originally intended to do a forested landscape
with something man-made, the same theme but I was having too much trouble
getting the image how I wanted it.  I gave up on it entirely, was working on
something else when I made the sky.  The sky is actually a series of carefully
textured planes, 30 total that were generated in a script I wrote.  The
textures are using the 'wrinkle' pattern in povray; no image maps were used. 
Later, with 10 days left in the contest, I saw this really cool dusk desert
photo with this stark sky and a detailed landscape foreground and started
thinking.  I didn't want to abandon my clouds, so I threw them in :).  The boat
was an afterthought and is a fairly simple model.  The remains of the rigging
were generated using another script I wrote for sweeping an object along a
bezier path.  I wanted a dark foreground with a contrasting sky, so all objects
are textured fairly dark with low ambient values.  I was afraid it would look
too flat, so I added the ground fog.