EMAIL: mischa@rainbow.studorg.tuwien.ac.at
NAME: Mischa Magyar
TOPIC: Magic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Magic Portal
COUNTRY: Austria
WEBPAGE: http://rainbow.studorg.tuwien.ac.at/~mischa/
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.00e.watcom.win32 [Pentium optimised]
TOOLS USED: lparser3, gforge13, orb
RENDER TIME: 0d01h57m28s
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 166 MHz, 32 MB RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
   This is the Magic Portal leading from our world to the continent of Alba.
   It consists of a circle of runes surrounded by a sparkling lightning. Alba
   is a world I created as a background for some roleplaying-games. On Alba
   magic plays an important role, so the picture fits perfectly this rounds
   topic.

   For those of you, who cannot read Simur (the runes on the stones ;-) the
   runes read 'agbas rogis' meaning 'magic door' or 'magic portal' (literally
   'door of magic') (This is Simur, a language I created to be the ancient
   symbols on Alba.)


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
   At first I created the stones and the portal. The stones are height-fields
   and the runes are taken from a font I created some month ago for my
   language Simur.

   Then I added the sky and grass, which I have already used for the
   temple-scene (the destination of the portal, which is added later). I
   created the grass-heightfield in a paint-program spraying with different
   grays. The river, I subtracted from the grass, is also a height-field.

   The destination is an image-map of the Temple of Sarha, which is projected
   on a (surprise, surprise!) height-field.

   To add some environment, I created the trees with lparser3, a height-field
   wrapped around an orb (gforge13, orb) for the rocks, the mountains (taken
   from the temple-scene) and some reed.

   Finally I added the stone with my initials and adjusted the lights.