TITLE: Castle
NAME: Tony Micklus
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: tony@awmcs.net
WEBPAGE: http://www.awmcs.net/artgallery
TOPIC: Fortress
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1g
TOOLS USED: Microsoft Image Composer to add Name at Bottom
RENDER TIME: 19 Min. 14 Sec
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 3 - 866MHz with 128MB Ram
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
What can I say? Its the first thing I think of when I think of a fortress - A castle
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
Sky - Blue Fog
Clouds - Box Object w/ Bozo Pattern
Mountains - Heightfield 
Castle - All CSG the bricks were a modified technique found in a really great tutorial found on the web (Sorry can't seem to find it again.)
Flags - Wavy pattern created w/ Cylinders, Herald is a simple bitmap superimposed. 
Moat - Box cut out of ground then replaced with superellipsoids to create roundness.
Moat Water - Crackle pattern w/ high reflection and high transmit.
Guards - A hand created blob object. 
Trees - Created w/ Paul Dawson's ptd_tree macro. 

You must download the ptd_tree macro to re-render this image. (http://www.voicenet.com/~ptdawson)