TITLE: Fragile
NAME: Marc JACQUIER
COUNTRY: FRANCE
EMAIL: jacquier.marc@wanadoo.fr
WEBPAGE: http://www.marcjacquier.fr.st/
TOPIC: Spectacular landscapes
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: mj_atoll.jpg
ZIPFILE: mj_atoll.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POVRAY 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray 3.5 beta

RENDER TIME: 


HARDWARE USED: 
    Athlon 1GHz 256MB sdram pc133

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    An atoll where I wish I spend some time before it is flooded
by oceans rise.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The atoll is a height_field from an image created with paterned textures in
Moray and rendered at 16bit grayscale.
Remote island is made of two isosurfaces mixing image_maps and wrinkles for the
rock and granite patern for vegetation.
sand is a simple height_field
The sea is a f_ridged_mf  isosurface with absorption color
Foreground cocotrees: truncs are spheres with random scale along a spline
palm fingers are a mesh copyed with rand rotation along a spline which bending
is dependent of the starting angle (the more horizontal, the more bended)
remote cocotrees are tubed bicubic patches for the truncs and bicubic sheets
with an image_map texture (image is a render of a foreground palm) for the
palms.
Foreground ground vegetation is a mesh leaf copied and dropped on the
height_field ground with trace function and filtered by a bozo pigment
converted to function to keep clear some sand  surface.
Clouds are a cylinder with scattering isotropic media


