TITLE: SB_SWORD
NAME: Sylvain BOUTRY
COUNTRY: FRANCE
EMAIL: babouche13@yahoo.fr
TOPIC: Fantasy and mystic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: sb_sword.jpg
ZIPFILE: sb_sword.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-RAY 3.1g WIN


TOOLS USED: 
    SPatch, Paint Shop Pro (JPEG conversion)


RENDER TIME: 
    (Anti-Aliasing 0.3) 1 h 20 min


HARDWARE USED: 
    ATHLON 900 Mhz, 256 SDRAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


I really like Fantasy. And I expect lots of Excalibur-like swords in this round.

I just wanted to broke the stereotype of the "magic-sword-in-a-magic-stone", 
by placing a sword in an other kind 
of base, while a starry night... 



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


I used POV-Ray (CSG) for the majority of the image (99%). I just used SPatch 
for the middle part of the sword (I add the .spt file in the zip file).
The light around the sword is a media.

The trees have been made with the great Gilles Tran's macro MAKETREE.
And the grass has been made with MAKEGRASS.
You can find these two macro here : www.oyonale.com

The toilet is a free model found here : www.povworld.de. I modified it after.

