EMAIL: egnork@eznet.net NAME: Keith Egnor TOPIC: Magic COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Yellow Goat's-Beard COUNTRY: USA WEBPAGE: RENDERER USED: povray 3.01 TOOLS USED: moray version 2.5b.wat RENDER TIME: 0 hr 12 min 9.0 sec HARDWARE USED: pentium 166 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The "magic" in this image is referring to the magic of life. Nature is able to take the ingredients pictured -- earth, air, water, and light -- and not only create life, but to recreate life. The precision and clarity of the image is meant to portray how technology pales in comparison to biological renderings. This is a novice's use of moray, taking basic shapes and modifying them to evoke the forms of the natural world. Yellow goat's-beard is a beautiful plant, with a seed pod larger and more defined than a dandelion's. Each seed has a parachute which resembles an umbrella frame. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Basic shapes were modified and textured to represent organic objects. The seed pods were formed of cones on cylinders, and grouped for movement. The planes of the land, the water, and the streambed were angled to give slope to the image. The yellow goat's-beard stalk is cylinders and triangles.