EMAIL: xavierleclercq@iname.com
NAME: Xavier Leclercq
TOPIC: Magic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Source of Life
COUNTRY: Belgium
WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/2485/index.html
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.01.watcom.win32 [Pentium optimised]
TOOLS USED: Terrain Maker to create the height_field
RENDER TIME: 6d 10h approximately
HARDWARE USED: 120-Mhz Pentium with 32 mb of RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
In the past, the region you see was green.
But fire transformed it in a desert. Only a few burned trees are left.
Fortunately, an absent-minded wizard choose this place to lose his life-sceptre.
This sceptre has the power to give back life. Its influence makes itself felt in a sphere
of increasing radius.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
The ground is a height_field. The image used for this height_field was made
using Terrain Maker. The texture is a crackle pattern.
The trees were made with a self-made tree generator. It would take too much space to explain
how it works here but I included the source code in the zip file.
The half-living half-dead tree is made of the same tree once with a burned texture, once with
a brown texture and leaves. I displayed a part of each entire tree by using once difference and
once intersection of the tree and a sphere centered at the life-sceptre.