EMAIL: contrath@hotmail.com
     NAME: Brendan Heilke
     TOPIC: Magic
     COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
     TITLE: Sword and the Stone
     COUNTRY: USA
     WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com./CapeCanaveral/Lab/1614/index.html
     RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.01 for Windows
     TOOLS USED: Povpad, Terrain Maker
     RENDER TIME: 3h 6m 14s
     HARDWARE USED: Pentium 200, 32 meg RAM (+16 virtual), ATI 3D card (2 meg video RAM)
     IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
	First thing I thought of when I heard the topic was Magic, was the mickey mouse on a cliff with water splashing up and stars shooting from the sky. But I didn't do that, so I did the sword in the stone scene instead. I think I was watching Monty Python's Holy Grail when I thought of it, when King Arthur was explaining to the peasant why he was king. (Help Help I'm being repressed! Now we see the violence inherent in the system! You saw him repressing me, didn't you?) But alas, I failed to model a "watery tart".
     	I would have liked to put a dragon and a castle in the picture, but i went on vacation for a couple weeks and didn't get the chance to finish either.
	Hope you enjoy it anyway!
     DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
	I did the sword out of a bunch of triangles with a tube cutout for the bloodgroove (I didn't get quite the effect that I wanted). The islands the the background and the foreground were made out of height_fields and the trees I made in lparser (I lost the sorce code for them though). I only got half of the dragon completed, so I didn't bother integrating it.
	At first, the reflections off the sword were very dull (purple actually, like the sky... hmm, I wonder why :P) so I put a plane behind the camera with a cloud texture to make the sword stand out more. I wish I could have done more work on the sword (like some sort of celtic style bumpmap on the handle and gold decorations on the flat base of the blade), but like I said, I went on vacation.