TITLE: Backfire
NAME: Phil Carrig
COUNTRY: Australia
EMAIL: pod@pop.merlin.net.au
TOPIC: Magic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: backfire.jpg
ZIPFILE: backfire.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3 ( Win95 )

TOOLS USED: 
    spatch, Paint Shop Pro 4.0 (for image maps)

RENDER TIME: 
    2 07

HARDWARE USED: 
    P166 (Pentium clone 133MHz) 16MB RAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


        A magician makes a slight error.
This is my first entry for the IRTC and my first serious POV_Ray project, 
it's not really finished but I'm submitting it anyway to see what sort of
reaction it gets.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


        I just got connected to the internet a few weeks ago and got a copy of 
POV_Ray 3 for windows and also spatch. After playing with spatch for about 10
minutes,
I thought 'a frog shouldn't be too hard' and set to work, well it was more than
I bargained for 
but here's the result.

The fog on the floor is a planar mapped halo, another first for me, with some
more fiddling 
I think it could be made to look quite good.  I also find the superellipsoid
object just what 
I needed for the walls.

The PNG image format made the quill quite easy to do ( It's not very clear in
the picture :(
but the feather has those fluffy, downy bits on the shaft done with alpha
channel. 

