TITLE: Summerset
NAME: Edward Dixon
COUNTRY: Ireland
EMAIL: edward_dixon2001@yahoo.com
WEBPAGE: www.geocites.com/edward_dixon2001
TOPIC: Winter
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: summerse.jpg
ZIPFILE: summerse.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    MegaPOV 0.7

TOOLS USED: 
    Adobe Photoshop, Hamapatch, UVMapper, Crossroads

RENDER TIME: 
    18 minutes and 55 seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    PIII 500 MHZ, 256 MB RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    Penguins watch the coming of winter to their icebound
continent


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    I used Hamapatch to model the
icebergs
and to make a single penguin model.  Then I used UVMapper to add UV texture 
co-ordinates to the penguin model, and hand-painted a suitable texture in 
Adobe Photoshop.  Then I used Crossroads to turn the Peguin model into a
MegaPOV file, and included into my main scene.  The sun is a sphere rendered
using media, the sky is a large luminous sphere with a color gradient for
a pigment, while clouds and water are planes.  The "waves" are done using
granite
for the normals (scaled up a lot), and a similar technique was used to texture
the iceburgs procedurally.  Thanks to Giles Tran for a most excellent and 
informative website.