EMAIL: rico@mindspring.com NAME: Rich Allen TOPIC: Magic COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT TITLE: The Getaway COUNTRY: United States of America WEBPAGE: RENDERER USED: POV 3.01 for Windows TOOLS USED: HFLab RENDER TIME: 42 minutes 58 seconds HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133 with Win95 and 32mb RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: It's just your typical Wizard steals dragon eggs, Dragon comes after Wizard, Wizard tries to escape before he gets fried story. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: This picture took quite a while to tweek, but the basic idea came about pretty quick. Actually, the eggs and the dragon were added fairly late in the project, but the theme was similar throughout the process. Before the theme was announced this time, I had been messing around with the method for creating the trees in the scene. So, of course, the scene had to be outdoors to take advantage! The trees and bushes are put together, on-the-fly, using blobs and spheres. Each tree is unique, due to random rotation of part of the canopy. The tree.inc file should be pretty much self explanitory. The bushes followed the same basic idea, just lower to the ground! Everything else is pretty straight forward. I'd like to thank Chris Colefax for his aid in creating the sparkles. And of course the wonderful height field program HFLab was used to create the cliff wall and the distant mountain. E-mail me if you'd like more infomation on this picture.