TITLE: A watery end
NAME: Mick Hazelgrove
COUNTRY: UK
EMAIL: michael.hazelgrove@virgin.net
WEBPAGE: http://freespace.virgin.net/michael.hazelgrove/index.htm
TOPIC: Water
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: dragwat.jpg
ZIPFILE: dragwat.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Pov Ray 3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    Corelpaint 7 to make the heightfield

RENDER TIME: 


HARDWARE USED: 
    300mhz Pentium 2 with 128mb ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    The dragonflies are mating. The males are displaying for the
female - unfortunately she's just been eaten by a fish, only bubbles remain to
mark her passing, soon they will be gone. The males - they'll be gone too, in
search of another female. Just another day in the watery world of a pond.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


I have really struggled with this picture. The basics were easy, the water and
the mist. The water lilleys have been modified from some code written for a
previous entry, the colours, textures and compostion have been changed. The
dragonflies caused a lot of head scratching and only worked when I gave up
using an image map for the wings and moved to using a height field. A brilliant
suggestion from Bob. Thanks Bob. The heightfield was constructed from a picture
downloaded from the web and converted to a black and white pic in CorelPaint.
Radiosity was used in the final rendering and adds tiny subtle touches of
color, enriching the colour and texture of the final images.


