TITLE: The Tower
NAME: James Birkett
COUNTRY: UK
EMAIL: james@birkett.co.uk
WEBPAGE: http://zebedee.dyndns.org/~birkett
TOPIC: Fortress
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: tower.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Pov-Ray 3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    Some plasma fractal generator, I can't remember it's name. Sorry. It
got deleted when I had to format my hard drive :-(, and The Gimp to convert to
JPEG and add my copyright

RENDER TIME: 
    7 mins 1 second

HARDWARE USED: 
    AMD Athalon 700MHZ

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    Lucinda (the duck. Yes, she's a duck. Yes, I know she has no
wings. Yes I know she has no feathers. She was one of the first CSG objects I
ever created, and I've used her in several scenes.) has been captured, and
imprisoned at the top of a tower made out of dice. No I don't know why. Maybe
someone just doesn't like her :-)


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Lucinda is CSG. The dice are CSG, positioned with a macro. The landscape is a
heightfield, made using said plasma fractal generator, and modified slightly
with the Gimp. The water texture was based on one in a tutorial, modified quite
a bit. The flowers are CSG. I wanted more, but I had to position them
individually, as POVRay 3.1 doesn't seem to have a way to find out the height
of a heightfield in a macro.