EMAIL: thierr@les-charles.net NAME: Thierry CHARLES TOPIC: Mystery COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Magic trap COUNTRY: FRANCE WEBPAGE: www.les-charles.net RENDERER USED: povray 3.5c TOOLS USED: KPOVModeler, JPatch, Moray sharware RENDER TIME: 9 days HARDWARE USED: Pentium 4 2.7 GHz and Athlon Thunderbird 900 MHz IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I'm sorry that it's not possible to read the enigme which deactivates the trap, but for those who wants to know it's : "Pronounce the usual short speech of disastrous situations". I'd like to thanks my friends from POVWIP (http://povwip.tuxfamily.org), 3D.Pov-Ray (news.zoo-logique.org) and especialy those from the IRC channel #povray-fr on undernet.org. They gave me many advises and some help ( M_a_r_c helped me to make the parchment, see http://marc.jacquier.free.fr ; LightBeam helped me to make some textures, see http://membres.lycos.fr/lightbeam/pov/accueil.php ; fa3ien who has written the macro used to do the iso-bricks and helped me to try some medias, see http://users.skynet.be/bs936509/povfr/index.htm ) DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: As I said before, I have used isosurfaces to create some types of bricks and I placed them randomly on the walls, the ground and the ceiling. I have make some SOR for the torchs and the lamp. The flams of the torchs are a merge of multiples patches filled with emissive media. In the same way, I have used a media to create the frosted glass of the lamp.