TITLE: Under Construction
NAME: Matt Giwer (Matthias M. Giwer)
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: jull43@ij.net
WEBPAGE: http://members.aol.com/jull43
TOPIC: History
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
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IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    A pyramid under construction. An event in
history that had to have occurred but of which there is no record 
of what it looked like in process. 

     In the far distance a finished pyramid and a bit closer 
another under construction. The view from a raft bringing 
construction stones. 


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


     Primarily it was finding no commonly accepted method of 
construction that I could clearly depict and clearly see what it 
is supposed to be. So I invented one. 

     The invention is to use the construction stones as paved 
roadway. When they get enough from the quarry to the site they 
start rolling the road up behind them for the higher level 
stones. The last stones from the roadway go to the very top. 

     Other than that the capstone is larger for visibility. There 
is plausible mention of it being covered in gold leaf for that to 
be reasonable. But the curse of the Pharhos might be upon me for 
this. (Such risks I take for renderting.) 

     The main problem should have been obvious before I started, 
scale and perspective. I picked a fair compromise, the view from 
a raft bringing another stone while the Nile is in flood. 

     These isn't much more to say about it. KISS it is.