TITLE: Flower Tower (Eyes can see it all)
NAME: Martin Vilcans
COUNTRY: Sweden
EMAIL: marvil@algonet.se
WEBPAGE: http://www.algonet.se/~marvil/
TOPIC: Magic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: flowtow.jpg
ZIPFILE: flowtow.zip
RENDERER USED: 

    Povray for Windows 3.0


TOOLS USED: 

    Paint Shop Pro
    sPatch 1.0


RENDER TIME: 

    50 minutes


HARDWARE USED: 

    Pentium-166, 32 MB



IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


A view of a magician's office, with the crystal ball
switched on. It's showing a scene from the nearby
red planet. On that desert planet is a magnificient
piece of architecture erected - the flower tower.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The flower tower consist of a mesh created with a
loop that creates triangles in a spiral pattern.
The rose is a bunch of prisms. I first rendered
this scene (Tower.pov) separately, then used it
as an image map on a disc inside the crystal ball.

The bricks that make up the window frames are
created by a quite flexible while-loop, that
can create a window frame of any given width and
height of the window, and any size of the bricks.
I can explain it more thoroughly if anyone's
interested.

The hat and the two bottles on the shelves in the
background are bicubic patches made with sPatch -
they are my first attempts with this excellent
modeller.

The sheet of paper in the foreground is a hand
made bicubic patch. I made the uneven edges with
some turbulence on a color map that is transparent
in the edges. (Got that? See the source.) The
image map is a rendering of the flower tower, that
I used Paintshop Pro's "find edges" filter on, to
make it look hand drawn. This technique was
described by Charles Fusner in the last round
("Physics and Math", file cfexh301.txt).

I got the idea for the "Witch compass" from the
film "Warlock", where they used a similar device.
I got the inspiration for the Flower Tower from
the children's book "The Neverending Story" by
the German writer Michael Ende. Read it!

I hope you like this image. Bye!