EMAIL: hmc@webaccess.net
NAME: Heather
TOPIC: Horror
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Inner Trail
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: http://www.webaccess.net/~sargon/html/hmc/hmc.html
RENDERER USED: PoV-Ray
TOOLS USED: sPatch, PoVSB, Paint Shop Pro, sks, Microsoft Word
RENDER TIME: 22m 57s
HARDWARE USED: 200 MHz Pentium II, 48 mg RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

This image was inspired by recent events in my life.  After I committed a crime and went to court, I realized that what the court does is final, but what I am doing to myself is not and never will be.  I am trying myself, there is no final "case closed," ever.  The horror is judging yourself, especially after you know you have done something that is not right.  Will I be able to live with myself?  Will my life ever be the same?  This is the horror that comes before, during, and after the actual trial.

This image may not inspire feelings of terror in everyone, but I have a hard time looking at it, mostly because, it is so familiar, and it reminds me of what I did.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
Trial and error.  (No pun intended)

I used sPatch to create everything, then PoV-Ray to put it together.  I managed to get the reflection to work properly only by placing my objects and height-field, then adjusting randomly until they came into focus.