TITLE: Portal to the Nightlands
NAME: William Bobzien
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: bobzw@ils.unc.edu
WEBPAGE: www.ils.unc.edu/~bobzw/tracerx
TOPIC: Night
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: bbportal.jpg
ZIPFILE: bbportal.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray for Windows v3.02

TOOLS USED: 
    Graph Paper, Paint Shop Pro

RENDER TIME: 
    Approximately 1 hour

HARDWARE USED: 
    P166, 48 MB RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

On the Plain of Terwin, approaching the Brokenback foothills, stands
a portal erected by the great wizards of Kythria to link their world
to that of Aerdon. On Aerdon were wrought magicks so powerful that the
day itself was banished forever, giving Aerdon the name of the
Nightlands in the lore of Kythria. The wizards maintain the portal
both as a link to a world still imbued with great magick potential--and
as a warning and reminder of the terrible price of magick ill-used.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


I had about a million ideas for this topic, like a lot of IRTCers I'm
sure. They were all somewhat mundane, but interesting to me. I had
started on several of them when this image came to me on the drive home
from work. I had had the idea quite a while ago, but couldn't think of
a way to bring it off without cheating. The solution came from out of
nowhere on that drive home, and I sat down immediately upon getting
home and started coding. This image, because of the technique I hit
upon, presented some interesting compositional challenges. If you're
wondering how it works, here's a hint: Things in this image are not
where they appear to be. . .