EMAIL: gshaw@monotix.co.za
NAME: Gail Shaw
TOPIC: Imaginary Worlds
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Doorway to where-ever
COUNTRY: South Africa
WEBPAGE: http://www.rucus.ru.ac.za/~gail/
RENDERER USED: PoVRay 3.02
TOOLS USED: Paint Shop Pro 5, Poser 3, WC2POV
RENDER TIME: 4 hours 32 minutes
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 150
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
  
  A book allows our imagination to go wild, to see world that don't exist,
  worlds that may one day exist and worlds that existed millenia ago. What happens
  when the dividing line between reality and imagination begins to blur? What 
  happens when a fictional prophecy is fulfilled by the reader of the book?


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

  The picture in the book was created using PoV. The sword is part of a collection
  of Pov weapons that I'm working on. The floor is a height field and the room
  was created from CSG cylinders. The lens flare is from Cris Colfax's include files
  (http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/1434/) as is the glow around the sword.
  ( for anyone interested in working out the size of the chamber, the doorway is 6m x 3m)

  A 640 x 480 png of the chamber is included in the zip file.

  The book was created from a sheared box and a cylinder with another box to form the 
  lifted page. The text comes from an image map because I'm unsure how to make text follow
  a curve. The lightning coming from the top of the book is produced by Jeffry J. Brickley's
  Lightning plugin (http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/3210) The light from the 
  bottom of the book is produced by three cylindrical light sources and an atmosphere with
  a VERY high scattering. The hand was modelled in Poser 3 ( A wonderful piece of software.
  much better that poser 1) and converted to pov by WC2POV.