EMAIL: dushan@ksp.sk
NAME: Dusan Bezak
TOPIC: Fortress
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: The Conquest
COUNTRY: Slovakia
WEBPAGE: http://www.ksp.sk/~dushan/ (mainly in Slovak language)
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1g (with special enhancements)
TOOLS USED: Corel PhotoPaint (signature & jpeg)
RENDER TIME: 1h40m31s (parse time 1m38s)
HARDWARE USED: AMD K6-2 350 Mhz, 128 MB

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

The mouse guarding a just conquered fortress - a cheese.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

My own custom version of POV-Ray allows (and makes it easy)
to create mass-scenes, that are:

   * the hair of the mouse (10000 pieces)
   * the elements in the soup (1500 pieces)
   * the holes in the cheese (300 pieces)
   * the flakes on the mouse's shield (200 pieces)

The whole scene has been hand-made using only text editor,
no external textures, there's only one external file -
the arial font of the letters in the soup. :-)

I spent most of the creation time playing with the lights,
textures and scene composition, there's always something
to improve... But I think I accomplished my intention.