TITLE: rise from rain
NAME: Uwe Post
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: uwe.post@online.de
WEBPAGE: http://www.pingweb.de/liga/ping_up/
TOPIC: Water
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: rise.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray for Windows 3.01

TOOLS USED: 
    lparser, winavg

RENDER TIME: 
    19 hrs 1 min 29 sec

HARDWARE USED: 
    IBM 6x86MX PR200

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Vision of a plant rising in the rain

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The mud is a height field created from noise functions; the water is
another height field made with a program I wrote; the plant was made
with lparser. POV-Ray rendered 25 frames with moving rain drops. Then
those frames were averages by winavg, a targa average program, which
causes the motion blur. The name of the image was added using Paint Shop
Pro. Regrettably, I have an antialiasing problem with the plant, as you
can easily see. I used AA 1.0, but it didn't help. So I thought about
rendering the whole thing again in higher resolution and to scale it to
800x600 afterwards, but that would have taken more than a day to render.