EMAIL: Emory_Stagmer@amecom.com
NAME: Emory Stagmer
TOPIC: Time
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Shrine to the Wheel
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: http://www.access.digex.net/~justgus/ezekiel/ersbio.html
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.0 (DOS)
TOOLS USED: POVCad & PhotoShop
RENDER TIME: 110 hrs 30 min
HARDWARE USED: Pentium-133

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

In a dark, smoky, dusty, stone room, various objects
of glass, diffusing all the light you see.  The stained
glass window, 50 ft wide, 30 ft high, of the wheel 
intersecting a wheel.  The Sierpinski pyramid chandelier
with it's mercury vapor lights.  The candles in their
sconces.  Ok, it's not a very interesting story, but
it took ALOT of time to generate!

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

This definately isn't the most interesting thing I've
ever created, but work keeps me busy and all that.

The stained glass wall was originally rendered in 
POV, then made into a stained glass frame with leading
and a cloud background in Photoshop.

The Sierpinski pyramid in the ceiling was created from a
custom Pascal program I wrote a long time ago and modified
to output a POV include file.

The candles are pretty nice, even real big.  The glass
hurricane is a lathe'd cubic_spline which I figured
out in POVCAD, then translated into an include file.

This is my first try at halos, and there are several.
First is the smoke in the middle of the room.
Second is the flame on each candle.

There are ALOT of light sources, though probably not
enough.  This picture is still really too dark, and 
what you are seeing is gamma-corrected as much as 
practical.  Every candle has a light source in the
flame.  There are the down-spotlights around the
perimiter of the room.  There are the 4 spotlights of
the chandelier.  And there is the 'sun' outside
shining through the stained glass window.

There is also an atmosphere in the room which I think
makes this image pretty nice.  I'd like to have done
a better job with the smoke in the center of the room,
making it less dark, but ran out of time.

I wanted to do something with a laser table or optics
instead or actually in addition to this picture, but
TIME is always the problem...probably would be even if
I had 6 months to work on the contest instead of 2.
Enjoy!   Emory R. Stagmer