TITLE: Vigilant SentryVIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: Contrast up full, brightness turned down until
                         the small pool in the foreground is barely visible,
                         or until you can't see the name in the bottom right.

NAME: Robert Pierce
COUNTRY: Canada
EMAIL: econoltd@thezone.net
WEBPAGE: http://home.thezone.net/~rpierce (old page)
TOPIC: Night
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: rpsentry.jpg
ZIPFILE: rpsentry.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POVray v3.0 for Windows

TOOLS USED: 
    Shareware version of Moray 3.0

RENDER TIME: 


HARDWARE USED: 
    Cyrix 6x86 P150+, 24 Mb RAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    (as follows)

"Curse this thinning fog!", hissed the Captain. "If it abates afore we
reach Freeport, we're dead men."

"But Captain, we've only ten leagues to go," whispered the sentry. "Surely
no one will spot us this close to shore at this hour of the morn."

"That's where you're wrong laddie", thought Guard Captain Erik, huddled with
his assault troops on shore, listening to the soft voices drifting across
the water. "The night may have sheltered you but now you're mine!"
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In this picture, I was trying to create the impression of someone crouching
behind some rocks on a shoreline, watching a viking ship trying to quietly
slip past in the early hours of the morning.  Let me know what you think.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


This image was created entirely in Moray 3.0 for windows.  I created the
scene, while my brother Stephen Pierce and I both worked on designing the
ship.  The dragon's head on the prow of the ship has glowing blue eyes, but
I decided not to emphasize that in this picture, as it would take away from
impression of trying to slip through unnoticed.

There are no lights used in this scene. The only lighting in the scene comes
from a global ambience of 0.5, and the fog itself.

The fog is a ground fog at a distance of 80 units, and a color of RGB 0.5.

The TGA file used for the heightfield was called plasma2 and was just kicking
around on my hard drive.  It is 100x100 pixels.

