EMAIL: hmartin@teaser.fr
NAME: Herve MARTIN
TOPIC: Magic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: The magician
COUNTRY: FRANCE
WEBPAGE: http://www.teaser.fr/~hmartin
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.01 for Windows
TOOLS USED: Modeller - PovLab 4 - Poser 1.0 (the magician) and Wct2Pov for Raw conversion
RENDER TIME: 3 hours 47 minutes
HARDWARE USED: Cyrix P166 - 64 mo

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

I find the Egyptian civilisation fascinating with its mysteries...perhaps also the influence of Stargate? 

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

the complete scene was created with PovLab using the patch of 150 additionnal textures.
I've created some clouds with ellipsoids and a semi-transparent cloudy texture 
I've used the option ultra-wide-angle for the camera (fov-135): that gives more dynamism to the image. 
The ground fog and the rainbow were added to produce an impression of mystery