TITLE: Nocturne
NAME: Jim Charter
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: jrcsurvey@aol.com
TOPIC: Contrast
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: nocturne.jpg
ZIPFILE: nocturne.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    megaPOV6a

TOOLS USED: 
    psp, pose2pov, maketree

RENDER TIME: 
    ~10 min

HARDWARE USED: 
    Athlon 650

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Image began from a picture in a recent issue of National Geographic.  The
picture showed cherry blossoms in Japan.  I had been playing with Gilles Tran's
Maketree macro and it gave me the idea of putting the camera in or under one of
the trees and looking out though the branches. The image also combined an
unusual camera angle looking steeply down onto a surface of water.  The
"Contrast" theme lead me to the attempt at moonlight.  Then it became a chasing
of mood.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The tree branches are from MakeTree.  The macro is slightly adulterated to allow
parameters to be changed at different recursion levels

The far bank is blobs

The sculpture is a poser figure coated in a thin layer of blobs by use of the
trace() function

Water is a plane with a surface normal and interior definition

Moon is main lightsource.  Branches have a camera lightsource. Sculpture has a
stronger lightsource coincident with the moon's location.

