EMAIL: buck@cs.byu.edu
NAME:  Jamis Buck
TOPIC: Magic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE:   Towards Sunset
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: http://students.cs.byu.edu/~buck
RENDERER USED: POVRay 3.02.msdos.wat-cwa
TOOLS USED: gforge, lens-flare plug-in, tree plug-in, povpeople plug-in, sPatch
RENDER TIME: 7h 32m 16s
HARDWARE USED: P100 24M RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

  A wizard attempts to join his comrades as they sail off into the sky
  with their mountain-homes.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

  The lens-flare, tree, and wizard were all done using plug-ins
  available on the web.  The spiral of "dust" was done using a few
  #while loops, adjusting each loop for gravity.  Over twenty-thousand
  objects were used in the spiral alone!  (Okay, maybe that was overkill).

  The flying mountains were intersections of two height-fields: one
  right-side-up and one up-side-down.  A light fog helped to enhance the
  feeling of distance.

  Both the boat and the wizards cloak are bezier patches designed in
  sPatch, but the distance makes the details on them pretty much
  invisible.

  Everything else was done by hand!  All the textures, all the placements
  of objects, etc.  I don't have anything against modellers, but they just
  don't work for me!

