TITLE: Altar NAME: Sarah Trout COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: holychao@swbell.net WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/1054 TOPIC: Magic COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: sltaltar.jpg RENDERER USED: POV-Ray TOOLS USED: Paint Shop Pro, Corel PhotoPaint 5, Texture Magic RENDER TIME: 1 hour 12 minutes 39 secs HARDWARE USED: Packard Bell P90, 16 RAM; Mustek flatbed scanner IMAGE DESCRIPTION: What's in that cauldron? Eye of newt and tongue of frog? Maybe an elixir of immortality? Could it just be a pot of Ramen noodles? I leave that to your imagination. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Everything in this image was modelled by hand. Everything. The textures for the back wall and the pentacle were done in Corel and mapped onto the stuff. As I'm still new to raytracing, there's very little CSG involved and none of the higher mathematical stuff. The whole image pretty much boils down to cylinders, cones, torii, and spheres, with the cup as the token SOR. The Tarot cards in the frames are from the White Wolf Mage: the Ascension deck.