TITLE: Colos
NAME: Roland Vansteenkiste
COUNTRY: Belgium
EMAIL: vansteen@tornado.be
WEBPAGE: www.tornado.be/~vansteen
TOPIC: Great engeneering Achievements
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: colos.jpg
ZIPFILE: colos.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.02 for Windows

TOOLS USED: 
    Picture Publisher (jpg-conversion)
            Poser 1 (Colos-creation DXF-file)
            3Dwin   (Conversion DXF to INC)
            Spatch & MORAY (some parts) 

RENDER TIME: 
    15m 27s

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 166Mhz, 32Mb ram (WIN95)

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    The Colossus of rhodes was one of the seven wonders of the
                   acient world. The statue was 120 feet tall anf took 12
years to build and was finished in 290 B.C. Tge skeleton was made of iron 
(7.5 tons) and the colossus of bronze (12.5 tons). It was dedicated to the
god Helios (Apollo). It was destroyed by a earthquake. Nobody knows how the
statue really looks. The statue of liberty is base on the colossus. 
The picture is inspired on a painting I found on the net (by M. Larrinaga).


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

POSER 1 (free included with PCPLUS a computer magazine) was used to model
the colossus body. It was exported as a DXF file en converted to a INC file
by 3DWIN.
MORAY for DOS was used to model the ships, sails, crown and the village.
SPATCH was used to model the hair of the colossus.