TITLE: Martyrs of Japan, 1597 NAME: Antoine Valentim COUNTRY: Canada EMAIL: bumblebee@globalserve.net WEBPAGE: http://web.globalserve.net/~bumblebee/ecclesia/ecclesia.htm TOPIC: History COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: martyrs.jpg RENDERER USED: Pov-Ray 3.1 TOOLS USED: Various include files (see below), North Coast Software's Conversion Artist 2.02, Microsoft's Paint RENDER TIME: 3h 07m 56s HARDWARE USED: Pentium 166 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This image is set in Nagasaki, Japan. On February 5, 1597, twenty-six Catholics were crucified there by order of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the regent; this was the beginning of the persecution of the Church in Japan. After the martyrs' bodies were taken down from the crosses, a woman goes out into a field before the crosses to pray... These martyrs were declared saints in 1862, and their feast day is February 6. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The thing in this image I spent the most time on was the face of the Japanese woman. I based it on the blob model created by N.B. (winner in the Technical Merit category in the May-June 1997 competition). I made her clothes and hair from scratch. The grass was produced by (I think) Gordon Bentley's reeds.inc (sorry if I got your name wrong!). The halo around the sun was produced by an include file by Samuel Benge. It's simple yet very nice. The castle at the left was something I made out of boxes and prisms. It's mainly based on Himeji Castle. The trees in the background are spheres with a partially transparent texture, randomly distributed and scaled. The sky is S_Cloud1 from skies.inc, and I added a fog to the scene for effect. And that's about it!