EMAIL:holychao@swbell.net
NAME:Sarah Trout	
TOPIC:Magic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE:Altar
COUNTRY:USA
WEBPAGE:http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/1054
RENDERER USED:POV-Ray
TOOLS USED:Paint Shop Pro, Corel PhotoPaint 5, Texture Magic
RENDER TIME:1 hour 12 minutes 39 secs
HARDWARE USED:Packard Bell P90, 16 RAM; Mustek flatbed scanner
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: What's in that cauldron? Eye of newt and tongue of frog?
Maybe an elixir of immortality? Could it just be a pot of Ramen noodles?
I leave that to your imagination.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Everything in this image was modelled by hand.
Everything. The textures for the back wall and the pentacle were done in Corel and mapped onto the
stuff. As I'm still new to raytracing, there's very little CSG involved and none of the
higher mathematical stuff. The whole image pretty much boils down to cylinders,
cones, torii, and spheres, with the cup as the token SOR. 
The Tarot cards in the frames are from the White Wolf Mage: the Ascension deck.