TITLE: The Magical Tree NAME: Aaron Ashley COUNTRY: USAWEBSITE: http://roz.theend.ch:5005/ EMAIL: a_ashley@hotmail.com TOPIC: Fantasy and Mystic COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT JPGFILE: magic_tr.jpg ZIPFILE: magic_tr.zip RENDERER USED: MegaPOV .07 TOOLS USED: Biowin, MGI Photosuite, Paint (for the sig.), Win 98 SE RENDER TIME: under 10 minutes HARDWARE USED: Pentium 3 733 Mhz, 256 Megs RAM, Diamond Stealth 3 Extreme AGP IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This image was created by fiddling around with MegaPOV and a lot of the include files off of the POVRAY website. I liked the result, so I decided to enter it!! :) DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I started out with the basic Biowin generated giant tree-like thing on the left... I then proceeded to add in the Stars (using Chris Colefax's galaxy.inc file), the water, and the height field. I then proceeded to tweak the textures and colours, until I got something that looked interesting. I then added the columns, using Nathan O'Brian's column.inc file. I then proceeded to add the sphere and the lightning (using a custom include file). I finally added the small tree on the right to balance the image. After that, I rendered it at 400 x 800 (on a 1024x768 resolution monitor). I then added the signature in using paint.