TITLE: Colossus
NAME: John Gardiner
COUNTRY: UK
EMAIL: john@thegardiners.co.uk
TOPIC: Epic Proportions
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: jwgclsus.jpg
ZIPFILE: jwgclsus.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    Poser4 to create human figures. PoseRay to import figures into
POV-Ray. Thumbs Plus to convert image to jpg.

RENDER TIME: 
    14m 01s

HARDWARE USED: 
    2.66 GHz Pentium 256 MB Ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    Triremes entering Rhodes harbour around 200BC.

Colossus was never really this big but he does have a reputation to keep, and I
felt that drawn-huge and straddling the harbour entrance fitted both the legend
and the theme of the competition. 

I wanted boats in the scene and triremes seemed just right. There's quite a lot
on the internet about triremes and I've tried to draw them to scale.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


For Colossus I used the unaltered Poser P4 male and the women's formal dress
(scaled down). I then used PoseRay to export to object-file and switched to
POV-Ray to add belt, bow etc. (Boat crews were later added same way)

The triremes are all POV-Ray code. This took most of my time - I found it hard
to make them look like real boats, probably something to do with having 170
oars each.

In the spirit of the competition I made myself include my source even though, as
always, it's ended up a bit messy.