TITLE: Roman Daydream NAME: Christopher E. Purdy COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: escher2@earthlink.net TOPIC: Dreaming COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: temple4f.jpg RENDERER USED: 3.5 Beta RC4 TOOLS USED: PovRay 3.5 beta, Moray 3.3 Registered Vers., Micrografx Pic. Pub. (for jpeg conversion and signature) RENDER TIME: about 10 hours HARDWARE USED: Hp pavilion ZT1130 Laptop (Mobile celeron 1.06 Ghz - 256 MB Ram) IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This type of image usually occupies my daydream when I'm busy at work... DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: After seeing all of the great work done with the new radiosity features in PovRay 3.5 I started playing with the Athene model that someone in the newsgroups posted a like to. I liked the results, and thought it would look good with some caustic reflections off of a reflecting pool. This is the result. The setting is late afternoon, the "Golden Hours" just before sunset, when everything looks a bit surreal. I remember playing in a friends swimming pool as a kid and seeing this quality of color in the evening light. The statue can be found on the Internet ad can the plant models... I'm not sure of the exact source, but they we all from some of the "free-model" sites. The brass vases are Rotational Sweeps in Moray 3.3. The Columns are from Keith Hull's Moray plugin. His website is found at http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/keithh/povnew.htm I haven't included the source files since there are a lot of mesh objects and that would take up a lot of space... This image was never meant as a competition entry, and is still not complete... Its one of those "hmmm... it just needs something more" type ideas. Thanks!