EMAIL: cussat@infobiogen.fr NAME: Christophe 'tOrOne' Cussat-Blanc TOPIC: Magic COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Creation COUNTRY: France WEBPAGE: http://www.etud.insa-tlse.fr/~cussat RENDERER USED: PovRay 3.0 unofficial with isofunction patch TOOLS USED: Modeler : Xemacs 20.0 Signature : PovRay 3.0 and Gimp ( to insert it in the final image ) Cropping : xv 3.10a ( Original was 960x720) Compiler : cc RENDER TIME: 24 mn 05 s HARDWARE USED: Sun Enterprise NOTE: This image has been rotated... So, it'll be nice to rotate it again in the other way ( right ) IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This image should have symbolised the creation of something that doesn't exist. True, this not an evidence, and True, the result really doesn't look like the image I've imagined... Perhaps one day, in tu futur, I'll be abble to render it. But, if the image is not what I was expecting, it's a nice one. And, I think, it's always deals with magic... All the objects, flying above the light are the result of a spell, and perharps their will become more than little piece of gold... DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The recipient is made with a function that fill a box expect the part that is included by a parabolic volume ( dont' know the real name ). This function has been clipped in a sphere... All the others objects are made with a "Bump sphere" function that made the ray of the sphere dependant of the angle. This function can create lot of different objects. Great... The sea, is not a simple plane with a bumps map on it. This is an another function that returns a box. The above face of this box is REALLY bumped. The result of this operation a the deformation of the shadow and realistic intersection with other objects. It's not really visible of this image, but the important is that I know it, isn't it ? :o) tOrOne