TITLE: The Magical Tree
NAME: Aaron Ashley
COUNTRY: USAWEBSITE: http://roz.theend.ch:5005/

EMAIL: a_ashley@hotmail.com
TOPIC: Fantasy and Mystic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT
JPGFILE: magic_tr.jpg
ZIPFILE: magic_tr.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    MegaPOV .07

TOOLS USED: 
    Biowin, MGI Photosuite, Paint (for the sig.), Win 98 SE

RENDER TIME: 
    under 10 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 3 733 Mhz, 256 Megs RAM, Diamond Stealth 3 Extreme AGP


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


This image was created by fiddling around with MegaPOV and a lot of the include
files
off of the POVRAY website. I liked the result, so I decided to enter it!! :)


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


I started out with the basic Biowin generated giant tree-like thing on the
left... I then
proceeded to add in the Stars (using Chris Colefax's galaxy.inc file), the
water, and the
height field. I then proceeded to tweak the textures and colours, until I got
something 
that looked interesting. I then added the columns, using Nathan O'Brian's
column.inc file.
I then proceeded to add the sphere and the lightning (using a custom include
file). I 
finally added the small tree on the right to balance the image. After that, I
rendered it
at 400 x 800 (on a 1024x768 resolution monitor). I then added the signature in
using paint.

