TITLE: Maligrees wundervoller Garten (engl. Maligree_s Beautiful Garden)
NAME: Julian Weber
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: weber@pharmazie.uni-halle.de
WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/8018/
TOPIC: magic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: jwmagic1.jpg
ZIPFILE: jwmagic1.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-RAY 3.0 beta

TOOLS USED: 
    none

RENDER TIME: 
    10 to 15 min

HARDWARE USED: 
    Cyrix 150+

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Above the hand of a sorcerer is floating the magic sphere, containing the
beautiful garden.
The Hand is a blob object, containing spheres for the middlehand an cylinders
for the fingers. Negative spheres reduce the radius of cutiing points
The sphere has got a Glass texture, which is included in POV-Ray 3.0 beta and
the halo is made by using cubic density loss.
This scene is taken from the description in "Der Zauberhut" by Terry Pratchett.
(I don_t know the correct title in english, but i think it_s "The Socerer_s
Hat")

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

I_m using POV-Ray since 3 weeks and i read about the competition. 
I read about this magic in a book of my favourite author ,Terry Pratchett, and i
thought: "...this is it". In this scene an old sorcerer created a magic sphere,
containing a wonderful garden.
The story is to complex to give a description in some sentences. If somebody_s
interested he shoud read the book, probably most of the people know Terry
Pratchett and the kind of humor he uses.:-)