TITLE: The Candle
NAME: Jakob Tendel
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: jake@snafu.de
TOPIC: Contrast
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: jtthecan.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.1g

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray 3.2

RENDER TIME: 
    3h + (aa)

HARDWARE USED: 
    PII 400

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    Darkness, a dank and dusty room. Moonlight falls through dirty
windows onto the bare floorboards. The only source of warmth and comfort is a
lone candle on the wooden table. Its light spreads golden through the dark and
dispells the creeping depression that the people indoors feel.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

 I made this in Moray. The rrom is modelled with a combination of sweeps and
CSGs. The textures are very important to me aesthetically, so I spent a lot of
time in the Moray TexEdit on the textures, which are mostly layered and bumped.
The lights are mostly area lights, except the point light in the candle to get
the diffusion through the wax. The windows include a scattering media to
simulate the dust. I wanted to get a scattering effect in the air, but render
times didn't allow it.