TITLE: Merlins Last Enchantment
NAME: Michael E. Rundell
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: mrundell@maxserv.com
TOPIC: MAGIC
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: mermagic.jpg
ZIPFILE: mermagic.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.01

TOOLS USED: 
    terrain maker 1.0

RENDER TIME: 
    2 hours 51 minutes 5 seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 133

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    I have always loved the Arthurian legends, and decided to do
an image based upon that.  
The runes in the background if translated read "AVALON" which is the legendary
resting place of Arthur.  Merlin
always seemed to have a solution and after the death of Arthur what would be
better than a way to find a new King.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    The image was done entirely with the
internal editor of POV-Ray.
The mountains were done with a height map generated by Terrain Maker 1.0 which I
got off the POV-Ray FTP site.
The plasma gif was slightly modified with Paint to keep the viewer from seeing
"under" the mountains.  All textures and 
finishes are either original or from the standard includes of POV-Ray. 

