TITLE: Waterwings
NAME: David R. Heys
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
EMAIL: arcana@sinbad.net
WEBPAGE: http://www.sinbad.net/~arcana
TOPIC: Water
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: watrwing.jpg
ZIPFILE: watrwing.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV 3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    sPatch, Photoshop

RENDER TIME: 
    Several hours (shut down the danged program without checking and
I'm not re-rendering just to put in the # of hours)

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 166, w. 48 MB RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Has the fabled Winseat plane met its end at last? After a myriad of travails
around the world and possibly to worlds beyond our own, could this be the end?
Only time will tell.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


I had waffled over several ideas for the Water round, without coming to any 
conclusion. Then, after being admitted as an Associate Admin, Bill jokingly 
commented that I must now make the obligatory Winseat image. :{)

It immediately sparked me, and I began. The seat cushions, seat backs, and 
seat back protectors/head mats, were all created in sPatch. Everything else 
is simple csg. The window frames are differenced superellipsoids. The upper
compartments are created by differencing a cylinder with superellipsoids.
The water, starting to come in through the edges ofthe window frames, was 
made with blobs. The water outside is a simple box with a wrinkle pattern.

There's nothing really special in this image. It was made for fun, not for
competition. That's not to say that it was a quick whip-up. A lot of work 
went into it, so constructive criticism is still welcome. :{)

Photoshop was used to convert the Targa image over to JPG.


