TITLE: Sunken Discovery
NAME: Chip Widmer
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: thechip8@yahoo.com
WEBPAGE: None yet
TOPIC: Sea
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: sunkendi.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    RayDream Studio 5.5

TOOLS USED: 
    Adobe Photoshop, Terrain Maker

RENDER TIME: 
    15 min 32 sec

HARDWARE USED: 
    AMD K6 500 Mhz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

The searchlights of a one-man submarine penetrate the dark waters near a coral
reef where a sailboat has sunk. Divers have already been in the area for a
while. This image just depicts the beauty of coral reefs.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

I created this image almost totally in Raydream studio. The terrain was made in
Terrain Maker and imported into raydream as a heightfield. The seaweed were
modeled using both pimitives and meshes. The coral are basically just blobs
that have been rotated. Both the sub and the sailboat were also made out of
primitives(although I had a tough time with the railing on the sailboat). I
really don't know why this image rendered so fast, except nothing in this scene
is random. I modeled positioned everything by hand and from scratch, and I
rendered it on a pretty fast computer. If you have any questions about how I
made this image, please send them to thechip8@yahoo.com.

