TITLE: 100 feet below
NAME: Victor and Alexander Widell
COUNTRY: Sweden
EMAIL: vicce.was@home.se
WEBPAGE: hem.passagen.se/gfxparadise
TOPIC: Sea
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: 100_feet.jpg
ZIPFILE: 100_feet.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    povray 3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray, sPatch, Photoshop

RENDER TIME: 
    1h, 49min

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium II 300 MHz, 64 Mb ram


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


  A scientific submarine exploring the neighborhood of a small oceanic
  colony.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


  The submarine is made in Moray with CSG, using over 300 primitives! The
  fishes, stones, jellyfishes and plants were modeled in sPatch, then
  improved and textured in Moray. For the background, I used an heightfield
  that I copied, rotated, scaled and sprinkled over the scene.
    The atmospheric effects comes from a simple constant fog, the light
  beams from the spotlights are just faked with semi-transparent cones. I
  would like to make the sub's window transparent, but I do not have the
  skill needed to create a human driver.
    NOTE! The scenefile included is in the "Moray for win ver 3.2" file-
  format.

FINAL RENDERING TIP:

  This is a tip for users of Povray under Windows 95/98:
  To reduce noise and electricity cost in the night of final rendering,
  include these lines in your favorite render settings file, (ex:
  c:\program\POV-Ray for Windows v3.1\renderer\quickres.ini) and the
  computer will turn itself off when the rendering is finished:

     800x600, TurnOff 
    Width=800
    Height=600
    Antialias=On
    Antialias_Threshold=0.3
    Post_Frame_Command=C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL.EXE user.exe,exitwindows        

  Remember to change settings when you do not want the computer to be turned
  off! For more information about the ini-file settings, check the Povray
  documentation.

