TITLE: Dragons Sanctuary NAME: Julio J. Teca COUNTRY: Spain EMAIL: henry_stauff@hotmail.com TOPIC: Fantasy and Mystic COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: dragons_.jpg RENDERER USED: Povray for Windows 3.1 TOOLS USED: Photoshop,Lparser RENDER TIME: 1h 46m 46s HARDWARE USED: Pentium 100 Mhz with 80 Mb ram (and next to 270 Mb hard disk for swapping) IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Well my english is awful but I'll try to explain the reason because of I made this image. All I have to say is that I've ever loved dragons. They mean fantasy and mystic. Dragons appear in most fairy_tales like evil monsters but I think that they are more complex. Just remember Dungeons and Dragons, DragonLance... they are everywhere (even in your mind according to Terry Pratchett). DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: That's really difficult. There are near to 74 different objects (the objects) in the scene. Dragons: Mandibles,arms,legs,bodies were made with blobs (and carrying out many tests). Island: The island is an Heightfield. I used photoshop to create the heightfield and its texture (Push and blur are useful). Buildings: The building on the island is a 'TOLOS' (I don't know the translation). Almost all the objects are made using revolution surfaces. The tower is also made using revolution surfaces (and a boolean operation). Trees: Trees are made with L-parser (and a lot of retouch). There are several trees in every tree!