TITLE: Practicing
NAME: Jared Saxton
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: jsaxton@folio.com
WEBPAGE: http://itsnet.com/~smorton/jared
TOPIC: Magic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: practice.jpg
ZIPFILE: practice.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3

TOOLS USED: 
    Blob sculptor (for the hands)

RENDER TIME: 
    5 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    486-66 8M RAM (for object modelling). Pentium 166 32M RAM (for
rendering).

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

This is a magician practicing his craft. He seems to be surprised by his own
powers.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Hands were created in blob sculptor.
Magician created with blobs in a text editor.
Everything else was created in a text editor with CSG.

The "magic flash" coming from the magician is a semi-transparent cone-sphere
merge with a yellowish halo in the middle.

