TITLE: flyfish
NAME: Mark Honzell
EMAIL: j.honzell@worldnet.att.net
TOPIC: Flight
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: flyfish.jpg
ZIPFILE: flyfish.zip
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.0
TOOLS USED: Moray 2.0
RENDER TIME: 32 hours
HARDWARE USED: 486/DX2, 20M RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
 My journeys across the oceans for the last 20 years have shown me many
wonderful discoveries, including this flying fish. At night, shallow waters
give strange illusions in their depths as light twists about the formations
below. These fish leap out in fear as groups, flying 50 to 60 feet, to escape
illusory dangers.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
 This is my sixth drawing with any form of rendering program. I am very
thankful
to the POV-Ray team for making such a tool available to express such ideas. The
only special feature outside of POV-Ray used was a modeller for the body of the
fish. I could have used spheres, but each fish would have required about 100 of
them and with a 486, this was faster. There are no image overlays. The fish
scales were an interesting effect of using the hexagon command on a curved
surface with each of the three colors graded. The moonlight reflecting as rays
occured by making the water "dented" and filtered with more than one color. And
the splashes are the julia_fractal command at work. Anti-aliasing didn't really
add much to the detail and without it, rendering time is about 4 hours on my
old machine.

