EMAIL: jacquier.marc@wanadoo.fr
NAME:Marc JACQUIER 
TOPIC: Spectacular landscapes
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. 
TITLE: Fragile
COUNTRY: FRANCE
WEBPAGE:http://www.marcjacquier.fr.st/
 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