TITLE: The swimming pool of my dream
NAME: Thomas Lieven
COUNTRY: France
EMAIL: lieven_ke@yahoo.fr
TOPIC: Epic proportion
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: pisc.jpg
ZIPFILE: pisc.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POVRay 3.5

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Speaking about epic proportion, everyone knows than more 70 0f the planet Earth
is covered by sea water.  
Speaking about dream, everyone would like to have a big swimming pool in their
home (covering 0.00000010f planet Earth is already enough for me).
Nowadays, "luxurious" swimming pools are hanging pools over the sea so that they
look just like if they were the sea.
This picture is even better, the pool of my dream, it is a pool in the sea
(where water is unsalted, cleaned with chlore and its temperature is warm). 
 

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

An old image I had rendered two or three years ago using POV 3.1.  In fact, it
was my first real render ever.
I have decided to submit it three years after because it is realy on-topic and I
like this competition.  I had to change few settings (interior, refraction) to
render it again using POV 3.5.  There are still few artefacts in the the sea
but I am happy with the result (especially the wood text.) and hope you enjoy
watching the pic.

How this image is done, pretty simple :
- a sky sphere
- the sea
- some tiles below the sea
- a wooden floor
- a seat and a table 
- a very bright sun
- a palm tree (that I took from a previous image in this competition, I am so
sorry for the owner as I lost his name and personal dat - at this time
ownership was not my first preoccupation (now it has change).