EMAIL: gman-firebird@geocities.com
NAME: Geoffrey Viljoen
TOPIC: Magic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: The Hood
COUNTRY: South Africa
WEBPAGE: www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/vista/1457/index.htm
RENDERER USED: PovRay v3.0
TOOLS USED: Moray v2.5b, Chris Colefax's Lens Flare utility, 
            Blob Sculptor v2.0a & PhotoShop for insertion of name.
RENDER TIME: 50 mins 5 s
HARDWARE USED: 486 DX-2 66, 8Mb Ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A hooded Cleric makes his way over a snow
                   covered HILL(tm) towards the light. He doesn't
                   notice how steep THE HILL(tm) actually is, and
                   this image is the last we see of him before
                   he plummets, screaming to a very unsightly
                   death. ( Ha Ha etc.)


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
This is my first submission to the IRTC.

The Hooded man is made up of three bezier patches, 1 sheet
for the head & 2 cylindrical patches for the body & arm.
The hand & staff are just plain Blob objects.

There are 2 height fields for the spire & THE HILL(tm).

I modified a sky from SKIES.INC, which comes with POVRAY, for the
SKY_SPHERE.

The Cheap Looking vase type thing which is meant to be levitating
the Sphere type light thing is a MORAY RotatSwp object (triangle mesh).

Lastly, the light is a reflective sphere, with Chris Colefax's
Lens Flare stuck on it.