TITLE: Crystal Gryphon In My Mother's Mirrored Curio Box
NAME: Constance Woodman
COUNTRY: United States
EMAIL: C_woodma@skidmore.edu
TOPIC: Mythology Still
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: crystalg.jpg
ZIPFILE: crystalg.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-ray 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray 3.5, Teddy by Takeo Igarashi, Crossroads converter to bring
files from Teddy into  Moray.

RENDER TIME: 
    4hr. 57mn.

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium III.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    Using Teddy I quickly created the
various parts of the griffin. Teddy leaves facets on the figure, which I wanted
instead of a smooth skin.  There was no need to smooth the mesh.  I used simple
primitives for the rest, enclosing it in a glass textured sphere.  The wooden
pedestal is a cube on top of a cylinder.  The pedestal is textured with a wood
texture I modified from the Moray library.  The crystal in the griffin is a
different texture than the glass.  I used a variation of Tim Cook's glass
texture for the griffin, which made the figurine refract and sparkle.  The
lights are two point lights and an area light inside the mirrored cube.  This
piece is structurally rather simple, and the visual interest is in how the
light reflects off surface. The finished raytrace was cropped and resized to
fit submission guidelines, and then darkened minimally to gamma correct.