TITLE: Cave, Lake, Island, Fountain
NAME: Dave Turner
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: prizog@hotmail.com
WEBPAGE: http://134.10.22.230 (soon to be novalis.ipdorm.reed.edu)
TOPIC: Water
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT
JPGFILE: lakedmt.jpg
ZIPFILE: lakedmt.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POVRay 3.02 for Linux (Debian), windows, dos, and macintosh
(really!)

TOOLS USED: 
    GIMP (www.gimp.org) for heightfields, assembly, and b&c

RENDER TIME: 
    ~14 days, sorta

HARDWARE USED: 
    DELL 350 Mhz, DELL 400 Mhz, CTX 350 Mhz, iMac 233 Mhz


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

It's a fountain surrounded by chairs on an island in a lake in a cave.  I got 
my inspiration about the 23rd, then got involved in teaching my friend to POV.
  On the 27th, I got back to this, at which time I realized that a 10 day 
render time was more than I had.  thankfully, I'm at college, so I made myself
 a little render farm out of my friends computers.  That's when the fun started.
 
One had little black pixels all over the image, and different machines did the 
fountain differently. 


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Read the source! <g>
Since it was made on different computers, I had to put it together.  I used the

GIMP, a photoshop-like program for X-Windows. Other than that, there's not much
to 
tell. Note that the fountain code is a little dodgy.  I'd rewrite it before
using 
it.  No modeler was used for any part of this image -- i did it all by hand or
with 
loops.


NOTE:
Although I have submitted to the standard copyright, the code is released under
the GNU GPL as well.  This doesn't seem to conflict, and the GPL is the moral 
high-road.  Note that in the case of POVRay code, I would interpret the term 
"binaries" to include images.  To read it go to
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html




