TITLE: Spectacle Landscape - Where Wild Eyeglasses Frolic
NAME: Mike Ferris
COUNTRY: Canada
EMAIL: mikey_eff@yahoo.ca
TOPIC: Spectacular Landscapes
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray
TOOLS USED: none
RENDER TIME: 4m 09s
HARDWARE USED: 733 MHz Pentium III
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
Take a home-made model of a pair of eyeglasses, add a heightfield, throw in a rippled surface and a surreal habitat comes to life.

The eyeglasses are completely composed of POV-Ray CSG objects.

The heightfield comes from a TGA image generated using POV-Ray and the example given in the POV-Ray help file.

The water is a rippled plane.

This image originally created Feb '02 while working on an article describing the function of eyeglasses to correct vision (got a bit sidetracked). 

Image conversion to JPG and copyright notice using PaintShop Pro.