TITLE: deadly prophecy
NAME: Saring Stefan
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: eddie@inf-gr.htw-zittau.de
TOPIC: Magic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT
JPGFILE: prophecy.jpg
ZIPFILE: prophecy.zip

RENDERER USED:   POV-Ray 3.0
RENDER TIME:     1 hour, 3 minutes
HARDWARE USED:   K5 100, 32 MByte
TOOLS USED:	 Moray 2.0 for DOS;  
		 xemacs, gimp 0.54 and POV-Ray 3.0 for Linux

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

	This image shows a kind of "working room" of a magician. The sign on
the wall is old german and represents the art of magic. On the painting you 
can see the omnipresent ghost of death. This ghost has announced himself 
through the magic sphere. The magician was of course very frightened, he 
drank off a bottle of wine and escaped panically into the night.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

	For modelling this picture I used almost only the DOS-Modeller Moray
2.0. Most objects in the scene are primitives, so I think that it is not 
necessary to explain them. The torches and the book are also groups of 
primitives.
	For creating the window I used a CSG-object, which subtracts from 
the wall a cube and a cylinder. In the window I set some cylinder-sticks,
so it looks like a window with a grid in it.
	The bottle of wine and the wine-glass are bezier-cylinders, which are 
easy to create with the bezier-editor in Moray.
	Most of the image-maps I used, I scanned from some books and CD-
covers.  I don't remember the origin from the textures of the wall and the
dark wood. 
	For the flames I wrote an include-file, where I defined  a special 
halo-texture. This texture I put on a vertical-stretched spehere, which is
placed directly over the torches. Look's like a flame, does'nt it ?


	Stefan Saring
	23.08.97



