EMAIL: mkhorton@direcway.com
NAME: Michael Horton
TOPIC: Winter
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: hotchoc
COUNTRY:USA
WEBPAGE:N/A
RENDERER USED: PovRay V3.1
TOOLS USED:none
RENDER TIME: 3min, 20 sec.
HARDWARE USED: AMD Athlon 1.2GHz
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A cup of hot chocolate in front of a warm fire. This is my first attempt at a real scene, and I know it won't be as good as many other entries, but I wanted to participate anyway. 

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: trial and error. I thought of something that might look good, then tried to figure out how to do it. (some worked and are still here, others were discarded.) I used the Fire texture from Povlab.inc (author unknown, I downloaded it from somewhere) as a rough guide for my fire texture. All comments are welcome; I'm new and could use the help!