EMAIL: james@birkett.co.uk
NAME: James Birkett
TOPIC: Fortress
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: The Tower
COUNTRY: UK
WEBPAGE: http://zebedee.dyndns.org/~birkett
RENDERER USED: Pov-Ray 3.1
TOOLS USED: Some plasma fractal generator, I can't remember it's name. Sorry. It got deleted when I had to format my hard drive :-(, and The Gimp to convert to JPEG and add my copyright
RENDER TIME: 7 mins 1 second
HARDWARE USED: AMD Athalon 700MHZ
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Lucinda (the duck. Yes, she's a duck. Yes, I know she has no wings. Yes I know she has no feathers. She was one of the first CSG objects I ever created, and I've used her in several scenes.) has been captured, and imprisoned at the top of a tower made out of dice. No I don't know why. Maybe someone just doesn't like her :-)

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

Lucinda is CSG. The dice are CSG, positioned with a macro. The landscape is a heightfield, made using said plasma fractal generator, and modified slightly with the Gimp. The water texture was based on one in a tutorial, modified quite a bit. The flowers are CSG. I wanted more, but I had to position them individually, as POVRay 3.1 doesn't seem to have a way to find out the height of a heightfield in a macro.