EMAIL:  emediez@emediez.com
NAME:   Marjorie Graterol
TOPIC:  Fantasy and Mystic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. 
TITLE:  I- The Magician
COUNTRY:  USA 
WEBPAGE: http://www.emediez.com
RENDERER USED: POVRay for Windows v. 3.1g 

TOOLS USED: Hamapatch, PlantStudio, AC3D;
            Corel PhotoPaint for signature and compression. 
RENDER TIME: 0d 02h 13m 05s
           
HARDWARE USED:  Intel Pentium III

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
The Magician (I) is a member of the major arcana (22) in Tarot. As an individual -an archetype-, symbolizes an universal aspect of human experience. This is one more version of this major card. The Magician is seated, as he is in few decks(Visconti-Sforza and Paladini decks) and behind a table. He is in the midst of water, though, instead of fire. 

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
1. Scene: Inside a textured sphere, a height field and a plane. 
2. Objects : Wall, windows and floor were made in CSG. Plants were made with PlantStudio.
   All other objects were modeled with hamapatch, almost all textures are  completely procedural, except the wall and the height_field using image_maps.
   Finally, 15 lights whether point or spotlight were used.
   The border is a symbol from Corel clipart, broken apart and combined with the letters; then extruded in AC3D and    exported to POV.
3. mg_mag04.inc is not included in the source file. 	 

/**References:
The Magician (Magus/ The Magus-) represents conscious awareness, and balances with the next card -number II the mysterious unconscious- like light and shadows, meaning the creative forces in a ground of potential, where one cannot exist without the other. With no accurate date of origin, tarot has been around at least since the XV century. Along the way, it has acquired many symbols from secret and hermetic groups. This is related to Mercury of alchemy. Although the content varies from deck to deck, basic symbols remain unchanged. A sword, a disc, a wand, and a cup are also present in every deck. However, the tree of life (Kabbalah's Sephiroth)is shown less frequently. I found two different positions for the same card in regards to the tree of life, depending on the number 10 or 11 - Kether or Chomak)  

These are the references:

Raven's Tarot site
http://www.corax.com/tarot/blindspot.html 
Maybe the most beautiful site sharing knowledge and art. 

Learning the Tarot - Joan Bunning
http://www.learntarot.com/top.htm
A helpful chapter to begin with...:-) 

One World
http://www.good.co.uk/oneworld/frame01.htm
Another site that helps to understand a little more (or the opposite, really). **/