TITLE: Silent Prayer
NAME: Julian MacDonald
COUNTRY: UK
EMAIL: macdonald@lonhelyg.freeserve.co.uk
WEBPAGE: N/A
TOPIC: Worship
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: jmacwors.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray v3.3,PaintShop Pro,Painter, pencil & paper

RENDER TIME: 
    9 hours 39 mins

HARDWARE USED: 
    PentiumIII 500 MHz


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

I almost didn't enter the competition as, although initially intrigued by the
subject, I couldn't think of a single original and achievable interpretation. 
Then suddenly 2 weeks before the deadline, an idea came to me - a stained glass
window!  (there have probably been loads of stained glass window pictures
submitted so I'll end up looking a fool for thinking this is in any way
original !).  I then had a dilemma of whether to focus exclusively on the
window and get it perfect or to create a scene around it.  As you can see, I
chose the latter.  Alas, as any full-time working man married with 3 children
under the age of 7 will tell you, 2 weeks is not a long time and there are thus
many things I am unhappy with in the final picture, including the main window
itself.  Nonetheless, I find this competition to be a great source of
inspiration and gives me the kick up the backside I need to get working on (and
learning) new techniques so I thought I would enter anyway.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The main window picture was sketched on paper, scanned in and played around with
in PaintShop Pro and Painter.  I used Moray to assemble the outer panes of the
window and the frame which took ages and doesn't seem to really show !  The
rest of the scene is fairly standard CSG stuff.  The lighting took a great deal
of time, particularly getting the shine through the window which I thought
would be easy.  There are several area lights which, together with the main
window, made for an extremely (in my experience) long render time.

