TITLE: Excalibur II NAME: Joshua Humphries COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: joshua@dante.cwru.edu WEBPAGE: http://dante.cwru.edu/~joshua/ TOPIC: Magic COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: jhlady.jpg ZIPFILE: jhlady.zip RENDERER USED: Linux POV-Ray 3.01 TOOLS USED: homegrown program, Adobe Photoshop 4.0, and Imagine 3.0 for DOS RENDER TIME: 06 22 37 HARDWARE USED: Intel Pentium 150Mhz w/ 16MB RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The "lady of the lake" from Arthurian legends DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I modelled the sword by hand (using graph paper and a calculator). The coastline height field was made by the coast.pov POV-Ray source. The hand was modelled in Imagine 3.0 for DOS and exported DXF. I then converted it to POV-Ray source via some utils I have laying around. The knot emblem on the sword hilt was something I designed (you can see how in the source to tube.c included in jhsword.zip) for the Glass topic competition (several months back) but if you check you'll see I never made a submission (never got far enough in my idea to render a scene for submission). The knot does appear in an animation I've made. The animation (in FLI format) used to be available at my web-page but any browser will tell you that my page does not even exist anymore (it was on a friend of mine's machine and a runaway uninstall script run as root made short work of his file system...). The title is "Excalibur II" because I submitted another one based on the "sword in the stone" story... entitled "Excalibur I"