TITLE: Rain Stops Play NAME: Joanne Simpson COUNTRY: Australia EMAIL: http://www.onewhiteraven.com WEBPAGE: http://www.onewhiteraven.com TOPIC: Catastrophe COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: irtc0504.jpg ZIPFILE: irtc0504.zip RENDERER USED: Povray 3.6 TOOLS USED: Povray, Poseray, Poser, Wings 3D, WinMeshComp.exe, Photoshop RENDER TIME: 16h 32m IMAGE DESCRIPTION: It's the last day of the school holidays - last chance for freedom, and the rain just won't stop! A catastrophe for any child... DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Figures were modelled in Poser. The bench and the bus shelter were modelled in Wings 3D. Rain is an isosurface differenced with a heightfield to get the cascading effect off the bus shelter. Additional isosurfaces were used to get splashes on the top of the wall, the grass and the ball. The grass is made from a mesh modelled in Wings 3D, converted to a mesh using PoseRay, converted again using Chris Colefax and Warp's mesh compressor, and then modified using Chris Colefax's hair macro.