TITLE: The Conquest NAME: Dusan Bezak COUNTRY: Slovakia EMAIL: dushan@ksp.sk WEBPAGE: http://www.ksp.sk/~dushan/ (mainly in Slovak language) TOPIC: Fortress COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: conquest.jpg ZIPFILE: conquest.zip RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1g (with special enhancements) TOOLS USED: Corel PhotoPaint (signature & jpeg) RENDER TIME: 1h40m31s (parse time 1m38s) HARDWARE USED: AMD K6-2 350 Mhz, 128 MB IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The mouse guarding a just conquered fortress - a cheese. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: My own custom version of POV-Ray allows (and makes it easy) to create mass-scenes, that are: * the hair of the mouse (10000 pieces) * the elements in the soup (1500 pieces) * the holes in the cheese (300 pieces) * the flakes on the mouse's shield (200 pieces) The whole scene has been hand-made using only text editor, no external textures, there's only one external file - the arial font of the letters in the soup. :-) I spent most of the creation time playing with the lights, textures and scene composition, there's always something to improve... But I think I accomplished my intention.