EMAIL:no13@ozemail.com.au
NAME:Nathan O'Brien
TOPIC:Night
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE:Skinny Dip
COUNTRY:Australia
WEBPAGE:http://www.ozemail.com.au/~no13
RENDERER USED:Povray for Windows 3.1 Beta
TOOLS USED: Paintshop Pro, Rhino3d, Poser2
RENDER TIME:9 hours
HARDWARE USED:Pentium II with 64Mb ram, Nt4 OS
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Skinny dipping. Something done mostly at night.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The main feature of this image is the hair. It was created using the POV3.1 beta functions of #macro and #local. Using these features I've hacked together a simple ballistics macro. I haven't included the source code with this one (but I'll make it available when the first public beta release of POV3.1 is made). 

The female figure was made with Poser2 and needs some work. There are some terrible errors at the top of the womans arm. (Deduct technical marks for this one). I need to explode the mesh and correct the incorrect triangles. 

The background is a combination of fog layers, height fields, sphere arrays (for the stars) and an image map on a sphere (the moon).

The water is a black plane using an agate normal.