TITLE: Khafra NAME: Joerg Nolte COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: joergnick@aol.com WEBPAGE: http://members.aol.com/joergnick/page TOPIC: Landmarks COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: khafra.jpg RENDERER USED: Lightwave 5.5, Bryce 4 TOOLS USED: Paint Shop Pro 5 RENDER TIME: 90 minutes HARDWARE USED: 400MHz PII/ 192 MB RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This image shows my interpretation of Pharaoh Khafras Valley temple. He builded the second largest pyramid in Egypt. His brother Khufu builded the great pyramid on the Giza plattau. A pyramid complex existed from several different buildings. One of them was the Valley temple. The purpose of this temple was it to mumify the dad Pharoh. Later on, this temple was used by the priest to offer goods for the dad Pharoh. The statue in the middle of the temple is a Khafra on his Lion Throne. Today's research indicates that Khafra was also the builder of the Sphinx which resembles him very closly. The buildings had no colorfull pictures painted on the walls during this period of great Pharoh's. That is the reason why this picture has a lack of any wall paintings. The inscription on the collums is the royal cartouche of Khafra. The pyramid on the left side is Khafras pyramid. The pyramid to the right is Khufus. Both pyramids are finished with white limestone layers. That is the reason why they are also white in my picture. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: All objects in this scene are made in Lightwave's modeller, either in normal mode or in Metanurbs mode. Objects like the walls, ceiling, collums and floor are also modified with displacement maps. I paid close attention to the face of Khafra, since I used this face on the Sphinx. (I believe I got pretty close to the real thing). All textures are made in PSP5 and then modified in diffusion and bump map for there specific needs. I created in Lightwave different scene files for each object or object group and combined them later in one scene together. I used Bryce 4 for the sky. The rendered sky picture was then used as background picture in Lightwave. The main scene has 10 different lightsources , two of them with a shadow map applied to it. I needed almost 4 weeks to complete this project. If you have further questions, write me an E-Mail.