TITLE: Bye Bye Boats
NAME: Leroy Whetstone
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: lrwii@janics.com
TOPIC: Sea
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: lrsea.jpg
ZIPFILE: lrsea.zip
RENDERER USED: 

    Povray 3.1g Dos (ran under Win3.1)


TOOLS USED: 

    jpeg covertion & _ : Lview by Leonardov Haddad Loureiro
    POV editor: (unname) by me
    prisms: Primpoly by me
     (I will put on them my web page if I ever work out all the bugs)  


RENDER TIME: 

     1 hour 50 min. 10 sec


HARDWARE USED: 

   Amd 5x86 133Mhz


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


  A group of crabs wave good-bye to two boats of vacationers that didn't eat
them.
  And birds looking for a free lunch follow the boats.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


PRELUDE:
   This is my first entry.
  I've been exploring POV and writing some support programs(using Qbasic).
  There's a lot there to explore. I first wrote a front end that let me view the
scenes
  and code that came with POV. And as I got more into renering I modified it
into a 
  full POV editor(as yet unnamed). I use this to do all my work on this scene.
   I wrote other programs to make 'things' a little eazier. 
  I created Primpoly to make polygons and prisms and to switch one to the
other.
  It create the boats. 
 
SCENE:
  There are basicly 5 parts SKY,SEA,BOATS,CRABS,BIRDS
  Sky: uses a large sphere for background colors and a plane for clouds.
  Sea: contants 3 parts Sea,Beach,and transition. All uses a box with there own
texture.
  Boats: one made with my Primpoly copied and colored with different textures.
  Crabs: are a union of cylinders and spheres copied & rotated .
  Birds: each one has 2 cones and placed by hand.

  I use antialise with a 640 by 200 pixel screen.

Zip-File:
  The zip contains everything ya need to reproduce the scene.(hopfully)
  It should have 3 files.
   lrsea.pov, lrsea.ini, Sboat.prm 
  
PROLOG:
   The artist in me says this could be done better. The programer says remember
the 'KISS'
  Keep It Simple Stupid. I've already seen a beach from the last contest that
puts mine
  to shame. I do like the transition from the sea to the shore though. 
  All the texture where done by hand. I guess I have another program to write.
   This scene turn out pretty well in TGA. But I'm not satisfied with the JPEG
convertion.
  Maybe when I upgraded I'll find a better converter. That won't be for a
while.
  
  Fell free to E-mail me with any comments and or suggests.



