EMAIL: pod@pop.merlin.net.au NAME: Phil Carrig TOPIC: Magic COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Backfire COUNTRY: Australia WEBPAGE: RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3 ( Win95 ) TOOLS USED: spatch, Paint Shop Pro 4.0 (for image maps) RENDER TIME: 2:07 HARDWARE USED: P166 (Pentium clone 133MHz) 16MB RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A magician makes a slight error. This is my first entry for the IRTC and my first serious POV_Ray project, it's not really finished but I'm submitting it anyway to see what sort of reaction it gets. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I just got connected to the internet a few weeks ago and got a copy of POV_Ray 3 for windows and also spatch. After playing with spatch for about 10 minutes, I thought 'a frog shouldn't be too hard' and set to work, well it was more than I bargained for but here's the result. The fog on the floor is a planar mapped halo, another first for me, with some more fiddling I think it could be made to look quite good. I also find the superellipsoid object just what I needed for the walls. The PNG image format made the quill quite easy to do ( It's not very clear in the picture :( but the feather has those fluffy, downy bits on the shaft done with alpha channel.