TITLE: Hindu Temple Interior
NAME: Raymond A. Salvatore
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: bonsalva@bellsouth.net
TOPIC: Asia
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: rasindia.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Raydream Studio 5.5 raytracer

TOOLS USED: 
    Raydream Studio 5.5 and Micrografix Picture Publisher

RENDER TIME: 
    20 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    PENTIUM III 128 MEG RAM - HP PAVILION AND HP CAMERA

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    Combined images of Indian Hindu temples in general.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    Except for the flowers, base of the

statue of Shiva, candle, basket and bracelets- everything was made in
Raydream's
 supermesh creator.  I found various pictures on the internet, downloaded the
best ones,
not necessarily from the same temple.  I used Picture Publisher to crop the
image
to the one item I needed, then converted the picture to greyscale.  I used the
grayscale
picture as a height field by pushing and painting the greys so that they only
represented
height from the paper.  Once the height field was ready I used supermesh to 
create a 3d object, used CSG to cut that object from the flat background and
used
another copy of the original picture as a texture.  This copy had to have no
shadows
so I used a copy tool to fill in the shadow areas.  I also used this picture as
a 
bumpmap to add detail.  I hope you enjoy it and hope that I did not offend
anyone
by combining images from various temples. Also I owe a great deal to the
following
site for having so many great images
available-http://shishir.home.mindspring.com/sculpindex.html