TITLE: Nemo
NAME: Chris Holtorf
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: lholtorf@nwlink.com
TOPIC: Myths
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: nemo1.jpg
ZIPFILE: nemo1.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POVRAY 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    POVRAY, Rhino, World Builder

RENDER TIME: 
    3hrs 12min 56sec

HARDWARE USED: 
    P4, 2.4 ghz with 1 gig of ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

   Captain Nemo is driving the Nautilus past an earlier victim of his as he
heads towards the open sea, continuing his quest to seek revenge on the worlds
navies. . . 

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

   I used Rhino 3D to create the Nautilus, the sunken ship, the cannon and the
fish. World Builder was used to create the height field for the rocky sea
floor. POVRAY was used for everything else. 
   I have not included any of the geometry files used to make this scene do to
their size ( over 150 megabytes total). I spent two weeks creating the
geometry, wasted one week to trying to figure out how to use photons to create
caustics ( I never did get it to work correctly) and a week putting the scene
together. 
   The school of fish wwere first created and placed in 3D space in Rhino. I
then created a text file of each fish's center point. I swapped the y- and
z-coordinates of each point in Excel to match the POVRAY coordinate system and
then used the result to locate all of the fish. If I had more time, I would
have created a loop to read the coordinates from the text file and populated
the school automatically. I had plans to do the same for all of the rivets on
the Nautilus's hull. There are over 7,000 rivets on the Nautilus in this
picture, about half of the total needed for the whole sub.

