TITLE: Source of Life NAME: Xavier Leclercq COUNTRY: Belgium EMAIL: xavierleclercq@iname.com WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/2485/index.html TOPIC: Magic COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: lifesrc.jpg ZIPFILE: lifesrc.zip RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.01.watcom.win32 Pentium optimised TOOLS USED: Terrain Maker to create the height_field RENDER TIME: 6d 10h approximately HARDWARE USED: 120-Mhz Pentium with 32 mb of RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: In the past, the region you see was green. But fire transformed it in a desert. Only a few burned trees are left. Fortunately, an absent-minded wizard choose this place to lose his life-sceptre. This sceptre has the power to give back life. Its influence makes itself felt in a sphere of increasing radius. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The ground is a height_field. The image used for this height_field was made using Terrain Maker. The texture is a crackle pattern. The trees were made with a self-made tree generator. It would take too much space to explain how it works here but I included the source code in the zip file. The half-living half-dead tree is made of the same tree once with a burned texture, once with a brown texture and leaves. I displayed a part of each entire tree by using once difference and once intersection of the tree and a sphere centered at the life-sceptre.