TITLE: Merlins Last Enchantment NAME: Michael E. Rundell COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: mrundell@maxserv.com TOPIC: MAGIC COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: mermagic.jpg ZIPFILE: mermagic.zip RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.01 TOOLS USED: terrain maker 1.0 RENDER TIME: 2 hours 51 minutes 5 seconds HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I have always loved the Arthurian legends, and decided to do an image based upon that. The runes in the background if translated read "AVALON" which is the legendary resting place of Arthur. Merlin always seemed to have a solution and after the death of Arthur what would be better than a way to find a new King. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The image was done entirely with the internal editor of POV-Ray. The mountains were done with a height map generated by Terrain Maker 1.0 which I got off the POV-Ray FTP site. The plasma gif was slightly modified with Paint to keep the viewer from seeing "under" the mountains. All textures and finishes are either original or from the standard includes of POV-Ray.