EMAIL: jchase1024@aol.com NAME: rjchase TOPIC: IMAGINARY WORLDS COPYRIGHT: I submit to the standard Raytracing Competition Copyright COUNTRY: USA RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1 TOOLS USED: Moray v2.5b (object placement, texture editor) POVWIN 3.02.borland.win32 Notepad (source file editor) PaintShop Pro (file conversion TGA to JPG) RENDER TIME: 01:10:36 (800 x 600 TGA) HARDWARE USED: DELL 486 DX 66 (Boeing Surplus $75) IMAGE DESCRIPTION: "SoulCages" was inspired by the song "Soul Cages" by Sting. The image was created using GALAXY INCLUDE FILE for Persistence of Vision 3.x, Created by Chris Colefax, 1 February 1998 Updated 9 August 1998: updated for POV-Ray 3.1. Galaxy was used to create a random galaxy file, "RAND032.TGA" which was then renamed "rjcage.tga" and used as an image_map for the "ocean" plane object. Note: It has been resized for the IRTC zipfile. The terrain is a height_field of a Mandelbrot GIF "bump_map.gif" included with POVWIN v3.02 (?), which i have renamed "rjcage.gif". The "souls" were created using the "POVPEOPL" plugin for POV-Ray 3.1, Created by Hero Ngauv, 1997. The POVPEOPL include files "people.inc" and "texture.inc" were modified be me; renamed "soulman.inc", and "soul_txt.inc", respectively. The background planet was created using a technique introduced by Ville Saari in 1990; using a planet-like sphere, with a slightly larger semi-transparent sphere surrounding, to simulate a thin cloud layer. The Sun_Sphere is an emitting halo object, with a "looks_like" point_light at its center. Two fogs are used; a thick ground fog, to hide the jagged edges where the "ocean" plane slices through the Mandelbrot height_field, and a light constant fog, to smooth and blend the entire image a bit. Many of the objects were modeled and roughly positioned with Moray. I also used Moray to preview textures, which i subsequently fine-tuned with a text editor. The background planet was created with a text editor using Ville Saari's "Planet" as a template, and later imported into "SoulCages". I have attempted to notify Chris Colefax, Hero Ngauv, and Ville Saari concerning my use of their programs and techniques. I have included the original files "Galaxy.zip", "POVPEOPL.zip", and "planet.pov" in their unmodified entirety, in order to comply with copyright restrictions. -- rjchase 27.2.99 jchase1024@aol.com