TITLE: Tidal Pool 2PM
NAME: Sonny Lacey
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: sonny@coldwaterdesign.com
WEBPAGE: www.coldwaterdesign.com
TOPIC: the sea
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: tidepool.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Lightwave 5.0

TOOLS USED: 
    Lightwave 5.0, Rhino, Illustrator 8.0, Photoshop 5.0

RENDER TIME: 
    30 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    PC Pentium II 266 mhz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    I grew up near the water and have always been fascinated by
the great little world of tidal pools. I could spend a whole Saturday looking
at them, going from one to another to find that perfect shell. The current IRTC
topic of "the sea" made me think immediately of the tidal pools. I wanted to
capture a bit of life and death, maybe a day or two old, at early afternoon and
under a small bit of water.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    The seashel curves were created in
Illustrator, first, and then imported into Rhino where the meshes were made.
The sea floor started as a flat plane and was subdivided 5 times. It was then
pushed and pulled to create the hills and valleys. The whole lot was taken into
Lightwave, where the majority of the time was spent adjusting the two lights
that are used and the camera angle. Photoshop was used to create an image for
the Nautilus shell material, which was applied in Lightwave. The sand is an
image that was created in Photoshop and then altered by adding noise.

