EMAIL: ojamies@cs.helsinki.fi
NAME: Tuomas Ojamies
TOPIC: Loneliness
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Loon Cry
COUNTRY: Finland
WEBPAGE: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/ojamies
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.5
TOOLS USED: Vim 6.0
RENDER TIME: 1 h 58 min
HARDWARE USED: 1.3 GHz AMD, 512 MB
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
I think that this is what loneliness looks like. There is greyness,
sense of cold, emptyness, no signs for land to reach for. Perhaps
even no means to paddle ahead.

And loon's cry in background - there is no sound that is more lonely.

A bit more cheerfull topic next time, please =).

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
I decided first to make image of empty room. While making decorations, 
I decided to place a model ship somewhere. Then I started to dislike the 
room idea so I wen't for a small island, where is lonely tree.

Tree was so terrible, that I decided to replace it with the model ship, wich
was in turn so terrible that I decided to replace it with my lapuri ship from
winter round. And that hadn't enough details.

I removed the sails and decided to make a scene where lonely man is rowing
in heavy rain.

First attempt for rain was decent, and I tried to use fog to cover it's
defects. Fog was so great that I dumped the rain. I remodelled large parts
of the boat. Then I wen't for comments.

Everyone seemed to be against my idea to add the man, they said that this
is good as it is. I tried to add detail, but this picture seemed to rebell 
all my attempts.

Finally I added the (arctic) loon, and made some improvements to the
water and hit the final render away, with heavy aa to keep the water
smooth.

Refer to sourcecode for technical information, it should be guite easy to
understand.

Thanks to all who shared their oppinions on this, and to POV-team for
this great tool.

-pto