EMAIL:Stephen@OpCom.ca
NAME: Stephen Lumini
TOPIC: Magic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: The Gathering of a Storm
COUNTRY: Canada
RENDERER USED: POVRAY 3.0
TOOLS USED: POVRAY 3.0, MORAY 2.5b, Blob Sculptor 1.0a, Paint Shop Pro (to convert the TGA to a JPG)
RENDER TIME: ~ 35 hours
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 75 - 24 meg RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The four bottles have all the ingredients of a storm, from left to right they are Rain, Wind & Clouds, Lightning, Thunder.  
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THE IMAGE WAS CREATED: First I have to thank my buddy Tim for coming up with how to create lightning.  A mighty fine trick it is.  The stones are blobs.  The Corks are open ended cone and the Bottles are rotational sweeps (another Tim trick).  The Thunder "all shook up" effect is created using 5 bottles with 100% filter and just slightly offset from each other.  The idea is that the Thunder is causing the bottle to shake.