TITLE: Opening the doors into your soul
NAME: Tim Anderson?
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: ande8545@blue.unco.edu
WEBPAGE: No such luck just yet! Hopefully coming soon . . .
TOPIC: First Encounter
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: 9_doors.jpg
ZIPFILE: 9_doors.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.02

TOOLS USED: 
    PoVSB 2.2, POV-Ray 3.02, sPatch

RENDER TIME: 
    27 min., 5 sec.

HARDWARE USED: 
    IBM Aptiva

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

People have been searching for ages for a way to find a deeper understanding of
themselves.  Some people try to find it through Religion, some people try to
find it through Philosophy, and some people try to find it through other means.
 This is my visual interpretation of a self-realization: one's first true
encounter with who they truly are on the inside.

Self-realization is truly a hard concept to grasp, but the rewards must be
great!  That is why I made both of the doors out of stone, but almost
everything else bright! The Flund spacecraft is waiting to take you inside. 
The ooze tries to keep you away from yourself.

After looking at my picture, it's probably incredibly obvious that I am still a
beginner!  So, ANY comments that you are willing to make would be of great
assistance to me.  Thanks, and good luck to all entrants!

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The background is a plane with a lightning texture, with a few boxes that have
lightning textures themselves.  There is another plane behind the background
with a  starfield texture.

The doors were made with boxes for the main frames, with Torus's used as
handles.

The Flund Spacecraft, Idea Torch, Ooze, and the two energy beams were made in
sPatch.

Other than that, the rest of it is just standard PoVSB stuff.  The PoVSB file
has been included.