TITLE: Birgitt turned into a demon!
NAME: Tim Woehrle
COUNTRY: Berlin, Germany
EMAIL: woehrle@gfai.de
TOPIC: Magic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: mywife.jpg
ZIPFILE: mywife.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.0

TOOLS USED: 
    Corel PhotoPaint for my wive's picture, TerrainMaker for the
            heightfield 

RENDER TIME: 
    3 h 17 min

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium-200, 32MB


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


How could that happen? My lovely wive Birgitt turned into an evil demon
and appears in an crystall ball of a wizard in a different world! 
My attention was to build the study room of a mage with a gloomy, 
mysterious atmosphere. The idea of the crystal ball came later, when I
thought that some books were not enough.  


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Most of the picture is good old CSG, handmade. The misty landscape outside
is a heightfield with some blue fog, generated with that useful little tool
TerrainMaker. I've find out that a glass color with a filter value greater
than 1 gives a bright, shiny effect, and I've used that for the laterns. 
The crystal ball is a combination of a thin, clear glass sphere and a smaller
sphere of balck glass with a hole in its front. The image is located in that 
hole. It is a nasty fake of Birgitts beautiful face, which I made on a 
long, dark evening with PhotoPaint. But don't worry, she forgave me
(hopefully)!

   Tim