TITLE: The Chamber of the Orb
NAME: Phillip A. Conophy
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: pconophy@walldata.com
TOPIC: Magic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: orbchmbr.jpg
ZIPFILE: orbchmbr.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    povray 3.02

TOOLS USED: 


RENDER TIME: 
    12hrs 45m

HARDWARE USED: 
    AMD K6233

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The chamber and pillars in the scene are CSG constructs with various stock
textures applied to them.

The base is a more complex CSG construct.  The runes around the base are text
objects that use the Tolkien Quenya TTF.

The statues are CSG models.  Each has a number of control points that can be
used to pose most of their joints.

The chains are a scaled torus series.  The frame in which the crystal is set is
a CSG object.  The crystal itself is a hollow glass sphere.

The blue-white cloud is an emitting halo.  The flares scattered in the cloud are
generated using Chris Colefax's wonderful lens effects include file available
on his POVRay include files page.

In my choice of textures, I was trying for a fairly stark theme in most of the
scene which is why I used mostly blacks, whites and greys.  I wanted the gold
textures and the halo and flares to make a strong contrast to their
surroundings.