TITLE: The Conquest
NAME: Dusan Bezak
COUNTRY: Slovakia
EMAIL: dushan@ksp.sk
WEBPAGE: http://www.ksp.sk/~dushan/ (mainly in Slovak language)
TOPIC: Fortress
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: conquest.jpg
ZIPFILE: conquest.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1g (with special enhancements)

TOOLS USED: 
    Corel PhotoPaint (signature & jpeg)

RENDER TIME: 
    1h40m31s (parse time 1m38s)

HARDWARE USED: 
    AMD K6-2 350 Mhz, 128 MB


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


The mouse guarding a just conquered fortress - a cheese.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


My own custom version of POV-Ray allows (and makes it easy)
to create mass-scenes, that are:

   * the hair of the mouse (10000 pieces)
   * the elements in the soup (1500 pieces)
   * the holes in the cheese (300 pieces)
   * the flakes on the mouse's shield (200 pieces)

The whole scene has been hand-made using only text editor,
no external textures, there's only one external file -
the arial font of the letters in the soup. :-)

I spent most of the creation time playing with the lights,
textures and scene composition, there's always something
to improve... But I think I accomplished my intention.

