TITLE: Two-thousand Litres
NAME: Simon de Vet
COUNTRY: Canada
EMAIL: sdevet@istar.ca
WEBPAGE: http://home.istar.ca/~sdevet
TOPIC: Water
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: 2000l2.jpg
ZIPFILE: 2000l2.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POVray

TOOLS USED: 
    POV, Moray, Spatch, TreeDesigner 1.0

RENDER TIME: 
    2 hours, 43 minutes, 58 seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 266

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Canadians are the worlds greatest consumers of fresh water per capita, at a rate
of 2000L per person per day. We're above the US because unlike the States, we
have no deserts to bring down the average.

In addition to this fact, Canada also has the world's largest supply of fresh
water, in the wilderness.

This image combines the two. Think of it as symbolic.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Like all my entries, this started as something quite different.
I started making a nice watermill, and had a very nice waterwheel made when I
abandoned the idea.
Then I was going to make an underwater view of a heron catching a fish, but I
discovered that my heron legs, made of blobs, would not work well in Moray.
This was abandoned.
I made a toilet, I made a bathtub, I made a sink. All with the intention of
making a large, complex scene in which a swamp invades a bathroom. However,
this was 2 weeks before the end of the competition, and I had midterms, so I
tried individual versions of this image for each object. Only the bathtub
worked out well, so it was kept.

The bathtub is entirely made of csg, and actually took the longest to model.
The faucets are CSG and spatch for the tap itself.
The flowers were made by me, in spatch. The lilypads, however, were borrowed
from another model by Karl Rudd. This is the only item on screen I did not make
myself.
The fish is also made in spatch, quickly. I used what I learned making my dino,
and it came out quite well... I have an image of it, in closeup, at
http://home.iSTAR.ca/~sdevet/Tubfish.jpg
The vine was made in the very nice program TreeDesigner. However, due to time
constraints, I'm not quite happy with how the leaves turned out, but I have no
time to fix them.

The zip file attached includes the .mdl file for the scene, a .mdl for the fish
alone, a spatch file for the fish, and a treedesigner file for the vine.  It
also has the .pov and .inc files for the scene, for those of you out there
without Moray.

Thanks go, again, to the entire team at #povray, and to Gilles Tran, as his Book
of Beginnings was always an inspiration. Unfortunately, I can't find the URL
right now, but it can be found on www.pvray.org, in he galleries section.

I hope you enjoy the image, I had fun creating it.

Simon

