TITLE: Canal Lock in Springtime
NAME: Nigel Briggs
COUNTRY: England
EMAIL: NBriggs@energis.co.uk
WEBPAGE: http://mudhole.spodnet.uk.com/~jinx/index.htm
TOPIC: Water
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: 1j_canal.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    PoV-Ray (Win) 3.1.b

TOOLS USED: 
    LParser

RENDER TIME: 
    2h 56m

HARDWARE USED: 
    P90

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

A view of a British Narrow Canal Lock in spring time, framed by a
backdrop of trees and hills.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The still water is simply flat boxes with the "wrinkle" bump-map.

The trees are basic L-Systems, created with Laurens Lapre's LSystem
(which I've finally figured out how to use).

The hills are height-fields created using PoV.

The moving water is a series of cylinders and boxes, covered by
various pigment maps (wood and gradient), and a mass of
blob-constructs to create the bubbles.

And as I couldn't be bothered to do a decent sky and background, I
used fog to hide the distance... 

I couldn't think of a decent name for the lock, so I thought "what
the heck" and used my own surname (hows that for personalized?!)

