TITLE: ICBM Pool
NAME: Paul Hope
COUNTRY: Cyprus
EMAIL: groovejetduo@yahoo.co.uk
WEBPAGE: None
TOPIC: Out Of Place
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: icbmpool.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Vue d'Esprit 2 (FREE with cover disc of PC Format magazine Aug
2001)

TOOLS USED: 
    MicroGrafx Picture Publisher-for making textures (Bundled FREE with
Plustek scanner)

RENDER TIME: 
    24hrs

HARDWARE USED: 
    Retired HP Vectra with 166 Mhz Pentium and 40Mb

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

A peaceful sea-view balcony with inviting pool...and an out of place I.C.B.M.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

I knew the pool water was going to take up a lot of processer power. So I tried
to keep the other objects simple and used Vue primitives and boolean
differences wherever possible. The pillars and pool steps were made in Anim8or
(FREE from www.anim8or.com), and exported as Wavefront obj's. For the pool
water I started by creating fractal "mountains" and adapting them using a
volcano function to get the surface right...but all I ended up with was
volcanoes. In the end I created a grayscale map in Picture Publisher and used
that as a contour for the water "terrain". The under water "point lights"
didn't behave as I expected so I covered each with a dome filled with a
material I made for light bulbs, to diffract the light in a slightly more
natural way. I would have like to anti-alias the picture some more but ran out
of time.

