TITLE: "Wizard"
NAME: Robert J Becraft
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: castlewrks@aol.com
WEBPAGE: http www.angelfire.com/md2/castlewrks         http:www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/labs/6080

TOPIC: Laboratory
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: wizard.jpg
ZIPFILE: wizard.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.1g

TOOLS USED: 
    Povray (image creation), I_view32 (TGAJPG conversion),
            FastZip98 (zip), Corel Draw for Labels on containers, TW for
heightfields

RENDER TIME: 
    9 hours 3 minutes, 56 meg

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 400

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


  The following code generates a variety of objects that are incorporated in the
picture submitted to the IRTC round
  known as the "Laboratory".

  An inventory of the objects:
 An entire Tarot deck flying around the center of the room (78 cards)
 Two mostly black cauldrons
 A shelf with jars and similar containers (15 different jars)
 A shelf with scrolls stacked on it
 A magic mirror with an active "destination" on it and some magical interferance
(cracks)
 A brass telescope
 Several crates of brassy/gold junk (Macros generated the contents of the
crates)
 Stacks of books (Macros generate the books and the applied titles, see code
below for complete list of titles)
 A bird-cage and Parrot
 A fancy legged kitchen type table
 A leathery-pad-locked chest
 A radioactive object carrying case (Hmmm... and just what was this wizard doing
with that kind of stuff)
 Ink bottles
 Feather writing quills
 A crystal ball
 Candles (two types), closer candles are macro driven and can generate different
wax drip patterns, closer candles do not use media
 Large jug of "LOVE POTION #9 Concentrate"
 small vial of "#9" with delivery tag to "9th and Vine"
 Jar of Lizard Tails, Red
 Jar with several wands arranged
 Jar of Eye-O-Newt
 Jar of Cheshire Cat Teeth
 Jar of Ambrosia Extract
 Aluminum can of artist's favorite beverage
 Chinese food cartons
 3 shelf types
 Wizard's desk modeled after the middle age scribe's type desk with adornments
 A wizard's floppy hat with a star pinned on with a straight pin
 An active wizard's spell with pentagram and appropriate magical looking
effects
 Stairwell and banister
 Artzy windows
 
There are a whole pile of image-maps used to generate this picture...
(These can be turned off by commenting out the variable "ImageMapOn")
..\graphics\redparrot.gif
..\graphics\brick065.gif (from http:www.grsites.com/textures/)
..\graphics\pepsi.gif (scanned a pepsi can)
..\graphics\warning.gif
..\graphics\love9.gif (corel)
..\graphics\newt.gif (corel)
..\graphics\lizardt.gif (corel)
..\graphics\ches.gif (corel)
..\graphics\ambro.gif (corel)
..\graphics\love9dlt.gif (corel)
..\graphics\hills1.ghf (Terrain Maker)

All these graphics are available in a zip file at:
 http:www.angelfire.com/md2/castlewrks/Wizard/WizardG.zip

in addition, I have a directory that contains images for all 78 tarot cards...
These can be found all over the net in whatever design suits your designs.    



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


See: http:www.angelfire.com/md2/castlewrks for some of the story.