EMAIL: dinsmore@world.std.com
NAME: Michael Dinsmore
TOPIC: Summer
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: winpov 3.0beta
TOOLS USED: lparser and terrainmaker
RENDER TIME: 16 hours and counting
HARDWARE USED: Pentium-60

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Summertime by a lake on a bright day where a quick storm has passed,
leaving behind only a trace of a colorful rainbow, visible only to
the lucky souls in the sailboat and the passerby on the hillside
observing the whole scene.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

I used terrainmaker to produce the first pass of the landscape
and hand modified the result, until I got the landscape I
desired.  I then played with the colors to get a crisp summertime
green.

I used the basic lparser tree and make it into an object to replicate 
around the world.  While nice, and more desirable than using
an image of a tree to plop everywhere, it causes an exponential
increase in rendering time.  Hence, only a couple of well placed
trees were used to give the illusion of a natural world.

I used Ray Dream Studio to fabricate a boat, which I took the
resultant image and placed into the water.  I  used a spotlight
to give it the right hue I desired.

The sources can be found on http://world.std.com/~dinsmore/raytrace/