EMAIL: Matop@swol.de

NAME: Matthias Opitz

TOPIC: Magic

COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.

TITLE: Magical Reflection

COUNTRY: Germany

WEBPAGE: sorry, no webpage

RENDERER USED: POVRAY 3.0  Win 95

TOOLS USED: Paintshop Pro, to create a JPG-file

RENDER TIME: 17 hours 50 minutes

HARDWARE USED: Cyrix 6x86 P166+ with 32 megs of RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: In April 1997 I heard about POVRay for the first time. For this
reason you can say, that I'm quite a beginner in working with raytracing programs. Some weeks later
I discovered the IRTC and had a look at the webpage. For the current topic, a particularly magic
effect of daily life came into my mind. The effect you can cause placing two mirrors, with an
object between them, opposite to each other - a little impression of eternity ! So I decided
to create an image of this.    

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

All the objects in the image are fairly basic CSG objects, everything was done by hand.
I spent quite a long time to create tolerable textures and illumination.
I used halos for the cigarette smoke and embers.
There seem to be some problems with the reflections in the ashtray, they don't seem to
be worked out completely. Please email me, if you know a possible reason for that.

The final image was rendered with the following parameters:
800 by 600 pixels
Antialias_Threshold 0.3
default jitter
Sampling_Method 1
adc_bailout 0.0039
max_trace_level 21