TITLE: The Wrath of Zephyrus
NAME: Joshua Humphries
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: joshua@dante.cwru.edu
WEBPAGE: http://dante.cwru.edu/~joshua/
TOPIC: Physics & Math
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: jhstorm.jpg
ZIPFILE: jhstorm.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Linux POV-Ray 3.01

TOOLS USED: 
    graph paper & calculator, home-made programs, & Adobe Photoshop 4.0

RENDER TIME: 
    06 01 41

HARDWARE USED: 
    Intel Pentium 150Mhz w/ 16MB RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    physics of the weather


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

        Everything was generated by hand except the branches used as the
snowman's arm, the snowman's scarf, and the bulk of pages in the Algebra
textbook. The scarf was modelled in Imagine 3.0 (for DOS) and exported as
DXF (and from there converted to POV). The other two items were created
by programs I wrote (which are included in the zip archive).
        The scans of book pages were imported using my dad's 24-bit hand
scanner (yuk). The cover and spine of the algebra book were generated by
hand in Photoshop based on a description of what it looked like (I don't
own the book :).
        The height_fields were generated using fractint (v19.2 for DOS)
but only one was generated (the rest were offshoots of it touched up in
Photoshop to insure the same coastline in all three images and to get
other desired effects in the terrain).
        The idea originally was the physics of the weather - but the most
obvious component of that (electrostatics: lightning) did not look so good
so it is not in the final render (though it is in the zip archive and simply
removing one comment block will render them). I am turning it in now as I
do not have the time to complete the lightning (right now it does not look so
good - generated by a program I wrote). I will possibly also add other objects
in the sky in the background.
        I placed the math & physics text books to make it more obvious a
connection with the topic (I know it sounds cheesy but I figured "physics of
the weather" might not fly...)