TITLE: Logic Dragon (dragon.jpg)
NAME: Shuichi Iida
COUNTRY: Japan
EMAIL: iida@kw.netlaputa.ne.jp
WEBPAGE: http://www.netlaputa.or.jp/~iida/
TOPIC: Elements
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: dragon.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Pov-ray 3.01

TOOLS USED: 
    Photoshop, Lightwave3D Modeler, HIDEMARU Editor

RENDER TIME: 
    61 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 90 and Power Book G3


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


The first element was a spiral object.  It's a pretty classical element
that connects geometry and life, but I just couldn't get away from it.
Then I added surrounding elements, water, earth, fire, light and so on.
Together, they form a sort of primitive enclosed space. 
It's both the beginning and the end of the world, I guess.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The spiral was made from while loop. The ceiling and floor are of height field
objects.  The background wall is a little tricky.  I first made a mesh object
on LightWave 3D, saved it as .asc format,  Using text editor, I converted XYZ
coordinates of the polygons for the position of each disk object.
The disks are also randomly rotated within Pov-ray.
Photoshop was used to modify the images for Height Field, and to create a JPG
file.

