EMAIL: espiritudelvino@hotmail.com, al447390@academ01.cem.itesm.mx
NAME: Raul Beltran
TOPIC: Magic
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TITLE: Witchcraft 127
COUNTRY: Mexico
WEBPAGE: none
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.0
TOOLS USED: Torpatch, "font.inc", "lensflar.inc", "books.inc", "web.inc", "bend.inc"
RENDER TIME:
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 120
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

When I was thinking about magic, 2 scenes came to my mind, one was about a 
wizard casting an espectacular spell... but to do that I needed post-processing
and it`s not allowed so I started the other image, a witch`s "lab".
Several magical items can be found in the scene: Magical ink, enchanted candle,
magical potions(healing, heroism, flying, etc), wand of illusion, witch lock...

The spell has 3 components: Verbal, Material and Somatic (VSM), the verbal 
component is what the caster says at casting time ("ABRACADABRA" or something
like that), material components are the things needed to cast the spell (spider
lungs, cat brains, sand of a grave, etc), and somatic is the set of corporal
movements the caster must do to finally make the spell work. In the scene the 
witch is dictating the verbal component of the new witchcraft in her collection.
The powerful magical potions are kept under a "witch lock" this cannot be 
opened by a key nor by brute force, only a word of the witch can open it, like
a password, or by the effect of a spell called "dispel magic" if used correctly.
It is impossible to illuminate the whole room with a single candle
but it is possible to do it with an enchanted candle, it will be glowing
until the witch needs the light and illuminates more than a normal candle,
thats why we can see everything on the room.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

I always wanted to do a steaming pot but I had no reason to do it. When i knew
the topic of IRTC was "magic" I had a reason, and thats what I did first
It was very easy. Then I tried to do the piece of paper out of 
a bezier patch but it was impossible to to give it the shape I wanted so I used
"bend.inc" on a THIN box, and I obtained good results. I didn`t even try to do the 
witch`s hand, writing on the paper, but the idea of the scene was to capture the 
moment when the witch is creating the new witchcraft and the only way to write on a 
piece of paper without using the hands is casting a spell called "dictation"
the ink travels and writes what the caster (the witch) dictates, awesome.
I needed text for the books and the paper, I first used CSG difference and 
bounded_by to put the text but in all cases the text wasnt readable so for the
books I used union, and for the piece of paper I had no choice, I had to use 
image_map. The rest (flasks, books, hat) are details that I made to 
make the room look like a witch`s place.  The hat is the shape called 
"Witch_hat" (doh) included in "shapes.inc" and I used "bend.inc" once more 
to make it look more realistic (I think). Everything was ok but something was
missing ... the spiders.... and of course a web so I made this little include
file to crate the spider web. The variety of flasks is made out of just one
surface of revolution unevenly scaled and translated, I really like 
those flasks :).I know my textures suck ... but its SO hard to me
to find the correct textures.