TITLE: fapure
NAME: Franck Angella
COUNTRY: France
EMAIL: mfountain97@hotmail.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/Paris/2737
TOPIC: magic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: fapure.jpg
ZIPFILE: fapure.zip
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...).--