TITLE: Magic trap
NAME: Thierry CHARLES
COUNTRY: FRANCE
EMAIL: thierr@les-charles.net
WEBPAGE: www.les-charles.net
TOPIC: Mystery
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: trap.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    povray 3.5c

TOOLS USED: 
    KPOVModeler, JPatch, Moray sharware

RENDER TIME: 
    9 days

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 4 2.7 GHz and Athlon Thunderbird 900 MHz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

I'm sorry that it's not possible to read the enigme which deactivates the trap,
but for those who wants to know it's : "Pronounce the usual short speech of
disastrous situations".
I'd like to thanks my friends from POVWIP (http://povwip.tuxfamily.org),
3D.Pov-Ray (news.zoo-logique.org) and especialy those from the IRC channel
#povray-fr on undernet.org. They gave me many advises and some help ( M_a_r_c
helped me to make the parchment, see http://marc.jacquier.free.fr ; LightBeam
helped me to make some textures, see
http://membres.lycos.fr/lightbeam/pov/accueil.php ; fa3ien who has written the
macro used to do the iso-bricks and helped me to try some medias, see
http://users.skynet.be/bs936509/povfr/index.htm )


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

As I said before, I have used isosurfaces to create some types of bricks and I
placed them randomly on the walls, the ground and the ceiling.
I have make some SOR for the torchs and the lamp.
The flams of the torchs are a merge of multiples patches filled with emissive
media. In the same way, I have used a media to create the frosted glass of the
lamp.