EMAIL: cox@gmx.at
NAME: Nico Kocks 
TOPIC: Sea 
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. 
TITLE: nk_sea.jpg 
COUNTRY: germany 
WEBPAGE: www.kocksi.de (german only)
RENDERER USED: povray 3.1g 
TOOLS USED: SPatch, Corel Photopaint to convert the BMP to JPG
RENDER TIME: 1h 15 
HARDWARE USED: PII 350 MHz 


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
First of all, I would like to say sorry for my bad english - if my old englishteacher could read this, he would kill me...
This is my first image I submit to the IRTC, YIPPIEE!!!!
The image doesnt have a special reason why I created it. I just readed the topic and I had the idea of a small whale-watcher
team which is diving near group of whales. Dont ask what kind of whales these are, theyre a product of my fantasy.
 
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
Most parts of this image were created in SPatch. The only things I made with POV were the water, the sky and the textures.
So, it wasnt really difficult. The only problem was to create realistic looking water. First I tried it with a bump_map, but 
it looked too checkered, so I used wrinkles. 
The SPatch parts were quiet easy; I modeled the different parts of the object in different layers. After exporting it to POV, 
I gave every layer its own texture and saved the scene as inc-file. Thats all. If you have any questions, write it to my 
Mail adress. 