EMAIL: mfountain97@hotmail.com NAME: Franck Angella TOPIC: magic COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: fapure COUNTRY: France WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/Paris/2737 RENDERER USED: povray 3.01 TOOLS USED: My keyboard RENDER TIME: 2 days 10 hours HARDWARE USED: PPro200 (256M) IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The pure energy. Only magic can reach it. An energy so poweful that it can turn fire into water. Ok, you will say that I did not drink only water when I looked for an idea for this round, but take a look at the picture, and you will see that I'm not lying. It's possible, the dark handed man did it... DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: All the room is CSG builded: floor, ceiling, columns... There are only 2 light sources: one is outside and atmosphere allows us to see it. The other one is inside the energy sphere (and for this one atmosphere is turned off). I added some halos for the energy sphere too. The fire is made of halos, the hand is a blob. And the Abyss-like water is a blob builded with 2000 transparent spheres. These spheres are randomly located near a spline curve. The curve location and the thickness of the water is controlled by parameters. Finally, the scene was rendered with radiosity. I had to stop my final rendering with focal blur (I have to plug my computer off during holidays...).--