TITLE: Jungle Temple NAME: Christoph Gerber COUNTRY: Switzerland EMAIL: ni.chri@bluewin.ch WEBPAGE: - TOPIC: Fantasy and Mystic COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: temple.jpg ZIPFILE: temple.zip RENDERER USED: POV-Ray Megapatch 0.7 TOOLS USED: Poser 3, obj2pov, for LView Pro (for JPG conversion) RENDER TIME: 4 h 11 min 59 sec HARDWARE USED: PII 450 MHz, 256 MB RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Image inspired by an ink drawing of Pierangelo Boog, a Swiss fantasy illustrator (published 1982 at Blender Verlag, Bremen, Germany). As suggested by the title the image shows a temple dedicated to an unknown god somewere in a swamp in the heart of an unknown jungle. Due to lack of memory (POV-Ray indicated approx. 350 MB peak memory usage and approx. 110'000 frame level objects) and patience (a parse time of almost 9 min is more than long enough for my taste) I had to try to use as few plants as possible while conserving the atmosphere of the original. Therefore I increased the water area to minimise need for high detail foreground plants. Due to the same issue there is a scale missmatch between the temple and the figure on one side an the size of the leafes of the bushes and trees on the other side. However, increasing the recursion level in the tree generation would result in too big tree files for my PC to handle ... DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The temple is plain, hand coded CSG. The trees were made with Gill Tran's excellent macro MAKETREE.POV. Plants were placed on height fields using Mark Wagner's vegetation object placement include file VEGETATE.INC. Boat by Mick Hazelgrove (I know I'm lazy but there is so much great free stuff for POV-Ray on the net, why not use it ...)