EMAIL: texbean@Hal-PC.org NAME: Robert Bean TOPIC: Magic COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: The Orb COUNTRY: USA WEBPAGE: none yet RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.01 TOOLS USED: fractint for mountains, not a thing else. RENDER TIME: 32h 32m 20s HARDWARE USED: P90, 24MB IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A Magical and mystical orb somewhere on an alien planet. I have worked on a idea like this before, I even have a picture a little like this one that was made back in the days of POV-Ray 2.0 DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: It started with just the orb..., then the neat little stand that is it on. I added some water, some steps around it, and the rest is history. This whole picture is made of only spheres, touri(is that right?), cylinders and boxes, one heightfield, and a halo.. Nothing extremely hard, it just looks good. I experimented with atmosphere and focal blur, and finally got the numbers that were on the finished product.