EMAIL: michael.d.riley@cummins.com
NAME: Mike Riley	
TOPIC: School
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Sunday School O' Fish
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE:
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.01
TOOLS USED: POV-Ray for Windows, GUM, My Brain	
RENDER TIME: 
HARDWARE USED: 486/80 20 megs
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: As we descend into the shallow depths of the 
Mediterranean, we see a "Sunday school" of fish swim by. They will be 
harvested and sold to Christians who use them as bumper
decorations. One species is shown here. Others do exist. One 
mythical species that was once believed to exist (much like the
unicorn) is just that, a myth. It was believed to have small feet
protruding from its underside and had the letters "DARWIN" printed
on its side.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I used GUM to model the
fish. The rest was done by hand/trial and error. 

The ground was made by using a height field that was generated by 
rendering a plane with a wrinkle colormap. I used that image for the
height field. The texture is the cork texture in "textures.inc" 
scaled much smaller with a bump normal added.

The shells were generated using a while loop. I used the sample file
"Swirbox.pov" as a starting point. Thanks to Dan Farmer for the
awesome stone textures in "stones2.inc".

I used a semi-transparent plane with bumps and caustics to create the
water surface.

The trickiest part was getting the atmosphere set just right to 
appear as though the picture is taken under water.

A slight focal blur was added for realism.

Thanks for reading this far. This is, by far, the best picture I
have made on my own. I hope you enjoy it.


Until next time,
	
-Mike Riley