EMAIL: ricco@alphalink.com.au NAME: Luke Richardson TOPIC: Magic COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: The Weather Man COUNTRY: Australia RENDERER USED: Povray 3.00 TOOLS USED: Midnight Modeller 2.1c, TrueSpace2 beta. RENDER TIME: 2hrs 34min 48sec HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: An attempt to make a man "controlling" the weather or lightning. Sort of like a mage or some mystical guy. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I used blobs to model the man and used individual bricks for the blocks in the building. It took a heck of a long time to do both, and I don't think I will ever do that again. It took so long to render because of a faint blue area light I put in, but I don't know if it made much difference to the overall picture. For the lightning, I modelled it in MNM 2.1, using the pipen function. The cape was modelled in Truespace, saved in DXF format and converted to pov with MNM. A fairly long and arduous process, but it looks alright.