TITLE: Dimensional Gateway
NAME: Daniel Bray
COUNTRY: Australia
EMAIL: danielb@ozemail.com.au
WEBPAGE: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~danielb
TOPIC: Pysics and Maths
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: gateway.jpg
ZIPFILE: gateway.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-RAY

TOOLS USED: 
    Torpatch and terrain maker

RENDER TIME: 
    3.5 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    Generic Pentium 100 40Mb ram and standard 1Meg video card

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    It is basicaly a desk in a science lab where the
development of a Dimensional Gateway is in progress. I got the idea
to render a gateway after seeing a program on TV about worm holes
in the fabric of space. It was suggested that these worm holes were
able to be simulated in a lab and one day maybe even controlled
in the sense of being able to set the point at the other side.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

There were no great feats of trickery in creating this image. Enough
time (and cups of tea ,bourbon and beer) spent creating enough 
objects and CSGs was all that was used and two 3rd party utility
programs, TORPATCH to create the lead coming from the mouse and 
TERRAIN MAKER to create the bitmap for the hieght field used in the
mountain range in the background. The rest are just functions included
in POV-RAY which has become my favorite PC application to date. 
It was also a good way of using my new scanner for the mouse mat
which is a model of my own current Homer Simpson mouse mat (hope
I dont't get sued) and the paper which is my own handwriting.......