TITLE: StormWarden

NAME: Stephen Catchpole
COUNTRY: Australia

EMAIL: catchpol@netspace.net.au
WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/8778

TOPIC: Water
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: swarden.jpg
ZIPFILE: swarden.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POVRay for Windows 95


TOOLS USED: 
    Text editor, photoshop for making the height map


RENDER TIME: 
    about 30 minutes


HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 166 with 32MB of RAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    This is my first ever complete image that I
have created with PovRAY.  This picture was inspired by a book called 
Stormwarden, by Janny Wurtz.  I originally conceived the concept
for the section on Elements, but did not have time to begin the
image until recently.  In this book, the Stormwarden is a wizard
who has control over the wet elements -- air and water.  He becomes
an outcast after refusing to assist an evil queen.  
In this picture I have created an image of him controlling the water
as he stands outcast on a peak.  He also is creating a storm, as
lightning swirls around him.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    This image is actually
a fairly simple image.  The ocean is simply a plane with a saw-tooth
bumps pattern.  The rocks are height_maps, created in Photoshop.
The spiral of water is simply a CSG merge of half-torii.
The wizard's body was made with a height_map and a texture map.
The other objects in the picture are simply CSG collections and blobs.
There is a fog on the ground, and the flare around the staff is a
cylindrical halo object, repeated five times around a circle.