TITLE: An Arabian Night
NAME: Stephen Lumini
COUNTRY: Canada
EMAIL: Stephen@OpCom.ca
TOPIC: Magic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: genie.jpg
ZIPFILE: genie.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POVRAY 3.0

TOOLS USED: 
    POVRAY 3.0, MORAY 2.5b, Paint Shop Pro (to convert the TGA to a JPG
and make the heightfield)

RENDER TIME: 
    ~ 10 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 75 - 24 meg RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    Playing with the adage a picture is worth a thousand words, I
thought to make a thousand and one nights into a picture; this is a tribute to
Scherezade's colourful imagination.  Flying over a moonlit desert one a magical
carpet some desperate soul (who we cannot see) has broken the seal of Solomon
which had kept the mischevious genie in check.  As the gaseous djinn bursts
free of the glassy prison, his blue skin slowly solidifies....
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THE IMAGE WAS CREATED: The idea came from the bottles I made
in the "Gathering of a Storm" image.  I made the bottle from a rotation sweep. 
The brass collar is two toruses bracketing a spiral of many cylinders (easily
done using Moray).  The gold filigree and Purple band are actually a single
layered texture.  to make it fit exactly I copied the bottle, enlarged it a
very little bit, and "removed" the top half.  The carpet is a simple bezier
patch with the image of a persian carpet I found on the internet.  The ghostly
hands are Translational sweeps, with a layered, filtered texture.  The sharp
edges of the sweep are "dulled" by the misty texture.  The moon is a sphere
with a bumpy texture and an area light and finally the Star pattern is small
white in a black color map with a frequency of .6