EMAIL: pward@acslink.aone.net.au
NAME: Samuel Ward
TOPIC: Magic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: The Source
COUNTRY: Australia
WEBPAGE: none
JPGFILE: SWMagic.jpg
ZIPFILE: SWMagic.zip
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.01 for Windows95
TOOLS USED: Povray internal editor
            Winblob V1.0
            Sonya Roberts Tree Include File
            HF-Lab
            Paint Shop Pro v4.12 for conversion
RENDER TIME: 8 Hours 14 Minutes
HARDWARE USED: Pentium-166 32megs, 512k cache

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

"and it was frome this place, that all their power flowed..."

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

This image was the result of a lot of research that didn't result in much.
I spent a lot of time going through various fantasy books I had to try to get
some ideas, but to no avail.
In the end, I just started with a very rough, small idea and went from there.
The result is what you can see.

The image itself is not all that complex, however I have used a lot of different
objects to make the scene. The hightfield closest to the camera was
made using povray itself, while the mountain range was made using HF-Lab.
The claw in the pond was made using Winblob. And the rest I modeled by hand.