TITLE: Xanadu
NAME: James Moore
COUNTRY: US
EMAIL: jtm11@bellsouth.net
TOPIC: Dreaming
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: xanadu.jpg
ZIPFILE: xanadu.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.5 beta

TOOLS USED: 
    Poser, Gimp, Povray

RENDER TIME: 
    about 10 hrs

HARDWARE USED: 
    Athlon XP 1.6 GHz 1GB RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

"...Held within the pleasure dome
Decreed by Kubla Kahn
To taste my bitter triumph
As a mad immortal man
Nevermore shall I return
Escape these caves of ice
For I have dined on honeydew
And drunk the milk of paradise."
-Neil Peart (Rush)

The idea was inspired by an old Rush song, "Xanadu" which was inspired by the
Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem, "Kubla Kahn" which was inspired by a dream.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The skeletons are poser models.  The violin body and forks are prisms.  Just
about everything else is a CSG object.  The glowing eyes didn't turn out
exactly like I wanted, but I ran out of time for test renders trying to get
them to play nice with the media.  I started with a larger "cave" but reduced
the size to make the shadows of the skeletons more prominent.  I'm pretty happy
with the texture of the walls in the background, though I wish I could have
used the media to set more of an "twilight zone-ish" mood.  Thanks in advance
for the comments/criticism - this newbie needs all the advice he can get!