TITLE: Software Development Lab NAME: Ray Benjamin COUNTRY: U.S. EMAIL: rbenjami@packet.net WEBPAGE: homepages.packet.net/rbenjami TOPIC: Magic COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: magicsft.jpg ZIPFILE: magicsft.zip RENDERER USED: POV Ray TOOLS USED: Corel Draw 7, Lview Pro (compression), RENDER TIME: about 7 days HARDWARE USED: Pentium II 233, Pentium 150 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: It's late at night in the software development lab and the last minute additions are being made to MagicSoft's latest offering. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I created the box graphics with Corel Draw 7. The walls and floor were created with a height field. I orignally wanted to make the lab round, like a tower, but never got the walls to curve satisfactorily. The "bits" going into the box were placed randomly with some functions I wrote to add jitter as a function of where they were in their path. The books came from Sonya Roberts' include files. The candle smoke was borrowed from another artist who did gofood a few rounds back. The smoke in the box is done with a halo. Send comments to rbenjami@packet.net