EMAIL: Kitsune_e@hotmail.com
NAME: Ed Blake
TOPIC: Surrealism
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Shingo
COUNTRY: United States of America
WEBPAGE: n/a
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.5
TOOLS USED: Wings3d, Povray, The Gimp
RENDER TIME: ~24 hours (rendering spread over a three day period)
HARDWARE USED: Athlon 1.3Ghz 256M ram
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

	Not much to say, I was just going about my daily affairs when all at once I had a vision of something similar to this image.  In a dark forest, a strange twisted tree standing in a clearing with lighted orbs embedded into it's roots and in the air around it.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

	I modeled the foreground of the scene in the brilliant, fantastic, and free Wings3d and then exported to Pov.  I also modeled the other plants in the scene and put them into a separate include file.  The scene was then  arranged, textured, and rendered with Povray.  Finally the gimp was used to create/edit the image maps used in the scene, and to gamma correct and convert the image to jpeg.