TITLE: gruta
NAME: Javier Benavent Llin
COUNTRY: Carcaixent, Valencia, Espa_a
EMAIL: jbenavent@grefusa.com
TOPIC: Fantasy and Mystic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STARDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION
JPGFILE: gruta.jpg
ZIPFILE: gruta.zip
RENDERER USED: 

        POV-Ray 3.1 for Windows ((C) POV-Team)


TOOLS USED: 


        SPATCH
        SPLINE        

RENDERER TIME:
  
        3 horas  39 minutos  15 segundos


HARDWARE USED: 

 
        K7 1.200, 256MB RAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


        
In the far away see of loneliness there is an archipelagos of Tusk, this is 
a bunch of little and large islands were no animal life nor plant life exist.
Sharp 
cliffs make quite impossible sailing activities even to the best trained and 
experiences sailor. In the very center of such archipelago, were waters remain 
calm, there is Perpetua Island. On it, and surrounded by mountains roughly 
accessible one can see two solid and sober towers that belong to the "Library of

the 7 spheres", a place were any prestigious magician peregrines eventually.

The scene represents a sight of Perpetua Island, were we can see the 
only way that leads to the library and behind the rocky mountains the two 
mentioned towers appear in the back of the drawing. We can observe on the left 
a magician of the Parkas clan, walking ahead _ this must be a very prestigious 
magician- only himself knows how he might have gotten to such place.
        


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The island is basically composed by to elevated fields that overlap, one 
of them is a fractal and the other is drawn by hand (with the mouse). I have 
taken away several parts to give it an even odder look. Construction of the 
towers is quite simple and I save details as they are in backstage. Their tops 
are built with "SPLINE". The magician is done in two pieces with "SPATCH" 
modeling and is so basic that one has to see it with perspective in order to see

a magician walking. The rest of the objects added are directly programmed with 
"POV-RAY". None of the textures is mine. Most of them are taken from several 
sources and small changes were applied.

Javier Benavent Llin
Carcaixent, Valencia, 30-08-2001. 

        Gracias a Laura y Bernardo por la traducci_n.


En el lejano mar de la soledad se encuentra el archipi_lago de los 
colmillos, un pu_ado de islas e islotes est_riles en donde no aflora vida animal

ni vegetal alguna, de abruptos acantilados que imposibilitan la navegaci_n al 
m_s curtido de los marineros. En el centro del archipi_lago, donde las aguas 
son m_s tranquilas est_ la isla Perpetua y en ella, en el mismo centro, rodeada

de impenetrables y abruptas monta_as se alzan soberbias las dos torres de la 
"Biblioteca de las 7 esferas", lugar de peregrinaje para todo mago que se 
precie.

La escena representa una vista de la isla Perpetua, podemos observar el 
_nico paso que da acceso a la biblioteca y detr_s de las rocosas monta_as se 
alzan a lo lejos las dos torres. En un primer plano observamos a un mago del 
clan Parkas que se dirige al paso, debe de ser un mago de muy alto linaje, s_lo

_l sabe como habr_ podido llegar.

        La isla la componen b_sicamente dos campos elevados superpuestos, 
uno es un fractal y el otro est_ dibujado a mano alzada (con el rat_n), a ellos

les he restado algunas partes para dar una apariencia m_s extra_a si cabe. La 
construcci_n de las torres es muy b_sica, al estar a lo lejos he ahorrado el 
detalle. Sus c_pulas est_n construidas con "SPLINE". El mago est_ construido 
en dos piezas con el modelador "SPATCH" y es tan b_sico que para que tenga 
apariencia de mago _nicamente puede ser visto en la prespectiva que he 
utilizado. Los pocos objetos que he a_adido est_n programados directamente 
con el "POV-RAY". Ninguna de las texturas es m_a, la mayor_a est_n 
recopiladas de varias fuentes y les he aplicado peque_os cambios. 

                                       

