TITLE: Atlantis Gateway NAME: Chris Betts COUNTRY: Australia EMAIL: cbetts@cs.monash.edu.au WEBPAGE: http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~cbetts TOPIC: Imaginary Worlds COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: cbgate.jpg ZIPFILE: cbgate.zip RENDERER USED: povray 3.1 TOOLS USED: none RENDER TIME: 40 minutes HARDWARE USED: pentium 233 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Past the Gates of Hercules, in a particularly obscure part of the Atlantic, the ancient and enchanted gateway of Atlantis occasionally rises from the deep (but only when the stars are right... :-) ). It leads to numerous alien and improbably worlds, where the ancient Atlantians built strange and wonderful temples (now sadly in disrepair) to their patron deity, Poseidon. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Contrary to appearence, this is *not* a cut-and-past job between two images! The portal arch obscures the edges of a hole in the inner sky-sphere (actually a sky-plate in this image) which reveals the outer objects (planets and the star sphere), and a protective (starfield textured) conical cover stretches between the arch and the sky-plate hole, to make the reflection in the water look right. The objects are all CSG (see attached include file). The "seaweed" is two layered green marble with transparent regions. The giant-planet atmosphere is similar. (Mmm... not sure about the purple clouds...) The rings are a wood texture with no randomness and transparent regions. The greek columns are a bit of a cliche' I guess, but I *like* greek columns! Anyway, they're done as segments approximating the real thing, which I hope makes them less objectionable :-) ... So there you go. Hope you like it; I've been lurking on this web site for a while now, and finally got it together enough to have a shot at contributing! All the best, Chris Betts