EMAIL: richardmassey87@hotmail.com
NAME: Richard Massey
TOPIC: Mystery
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Crystal Ball
COUNTRY: UK
WEBPAGE: http://www.rivenuk.homestead.com
RENDERER USED: Bryce 3D
TOOLS USED: N/A
RENDER TIME: ?
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 4 Windows XP

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
A crystal ball, on a table, amongst a variety of other mysterious objects.
The crystal ball forsees a castle, surrounded in a fog of intrigue.
By the way, this crystal ball actually creates a solid object in the glass 
sphere.
That explains the look of the castle [so no comments saying it looks 'too 
solid', OK?]

What is this enigma of the castle? What does it all mean?
Well, that's why it's a mystery.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
*I combined boolean objects and added textures using Bryce 3D to make the 
ball
*Other objects were created separately in a similar fashion
*I re-arranged the objects until they fitted well
*The landscape was created - the mountains, rocks, and water
*Cloud and atmosphere features were changed to finish the scene