TITLE: Flower Tower (Eyes can see it all) NAME: Martin Vilcans COUNTRY: Sweden EMAIL: marvil@algonet.se WEBPAGE: http://www.algonet.se/~marvil/ TOPIC: Magic COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: flowtow.jpg ZIPFILE: flowtow.zip RENDERER USED: Povray for Windows 3.0 TOOLS USED: Paint Shop Pro sPatch 1.0 RENDER TIME: 50 minutes HARDWARE USED: Pentium-166, 32 MB IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A view of a magician's office, with the crystal ball switched on. It's showing a scene from the nearby red planet. On that desert planet is a magnificient piece of architecture erected - the flower tower. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The flower tower consist of a mesh created with a loop that creates triangles in a spiral pattern. The rose is a bunch of prisms. I first rendered this scene (Tower.pov) separately, then used it as an image map on a disc inside the crystal ball. The bricks that make up the window frames are created by a quite flexible while-loop, that can create a window frame of any given width and height of the window, and any size of the bricks. I can explain it more thoroughly if anyone's interested. The hat and the two bottles on the shelves in the background are bicubic patches made with sPatch - they are my first attempts with this excellent modeller. The sheet of paper in the foreground is a hand made bicubic patch. I made the uneven edges with some turbulence on a color map that is transparent in the edges. (Got that? See the source.) The image map is a rendering of the flower tower, that I used Paintshop Pro's "find edges" filter on, to make it look hand drawn. This technique was described by Charles Fusner in the last round ("Physics and Math", file cfexh301.txt). I got the idea for the "Witch compass" from the film "Warlock", where they used a similar device. I got the inspiration for the Flower Tower from the children's book "The Neverending Story" by the German writer Michael Ende. Read it! I hope you like this image. Bye!