EMAIL: pod@pop.merlin.net.au
NAME: Phil Carrig
TOPIC: Magic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Backfire
COUNTRY: Australia
WEBPAGE:
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3 ( Win95 )
TOOLS USED: spatch, Paint Shop Pro 4.0 (for image maps)
RENDER TIME: 2:07
HARDWARE USED: P166 (Pentium clone 133MHz) 16MB RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

	A magician makes a slight error.
This is my first entry for the IRTC and my first serious POV_Ray project, 
it's not really finished but I'm submitting it anyway to see what sort of reaction it gets.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

	I just got connected to the internet a few weeks ago and got a copy of 
POV_Ray 3 for windows and also spatch. After playing with spatch for about 10 minutes,
I thought 'a frog shouldn't be too hard' and set to work, well it was more than I bargained for 
but here's the result.

The fog on the floor is a planar mapped halo, another first for me, with some more fiddling 
I think it could be made to look quite good.  I also find the superellipsoid object just what 
I needed for the walls.

The PNG image format made the quill quite easy to do ( It's not very clear in the picture :(
but the feather has those fluffy, downy bits on the shaft done with alpha channel.