EMAIL: bfranke2@home.com
NAME: Bob Franke
TOPIC: Sea
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Seascape
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/bob_franke/pov/pov.htm
JPGFILE: seascape.jpg
ZIPFILE: seascape.zip
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray for Windows Version 3.1g
TOOLS USED: POV-Ray editor, Jaime Vives Piqueres Cloud Macro and 
Lview Pro for jpeg conversion and copyright note. 
RENDER TIME: 45 minutes
HARDWARE USED: generic Pentium-III 450 w/ 256 MB RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
Not much to say here.  It's a seascape with dark threatening 
clouds, a lighthouse, some seagulls, some rocks with bird 
droppings and a beached rowboat.  Although the cloud cover is 
almost complete, there are openings that let sunlight though, to 
the lighthouse and scattered patches on the water.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
From the top down:
A sky sphere with a gradient pigment from white to blue

Two identical light sources, one is shadowless.  The light 
sources were positioned so the lighthouse receives direct sun 
light though a hole in the clouds.  Also some scattered patches 
of water receive direct light.

The clouds were made with a slightly modified version of Jaime 
Vives Piqueres Cloud Macro.  Thirty-five cloud planes were used.

Forty seagulls were added with my makeSeagull macro.  The 
seagulls are very primitive, but look ok from a distance.  The 
wings articulate about the center of the bird's body and also at 
mid-wing.  The macro randomly bends the winds, rotates the bird 
on the XY&Z axis and picks the location in the image.

The lighthouse is just a bunch of boxes, cylinders and cones with 
a couple of light sources inside.  It has a two-layer texture 
with a brick normal.

The rocks are a height field with a "gradient Y" texture map.

Well, that's it.  I hope you like the image.