EMAIL: gail@rucus.ru.ac.za
NAME: Gail Shaw
TOPIC: Night
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Beware what walks at night
COUNTRY: South Africa
WEBPAGE: http://www.rucus.ru.ac.za/~gail
RENDERER USED: pov-ray 3.0 for Windows
TOOLS USED: Paint Shop Pro for image maps and conversion to jpg
            Tree Designer to model the tree
RENDER TIME: 14 hrs 41 min
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 150 32 Meg ram
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Night is the time honest people sleep and monsters roam the land
In this image 'Something' awakens to go hunting

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The ground is a heightfield designed in paint shop pro. All the tombstones
are made with boxes, cylinders, pyramids and super-ellipsoids. The crypt in
the foreground is entirely of boxes. The image and bump maps were either desiged or 
taken from one of my CDs of clip-art. The stars are spheres at a fixed distance from 
the origin rotated by a random number. Ground fog and atmosphere were edited and tested
until it looked good.
The fingers on the edge of the lid of the crypt were taken from the pov blob tutorial.
The yellow beam is a result of two point light sources within the crypt. The inside of 
the crypt is yellow ambient 1. The beam would have probably looked better with area lights 
but I didn't have the time. The deformed tree was my first experiment with  
Johannes Hubert's Tree designer.