TITLE: cemetery of lost truths
NAME: Benno Wagner
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: mue@haefft.de
WEBPAGE: none
TOPIC: Mystic and Fantasy
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT
JPGFILE: losttrut.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Highlight Pro 3.0

TOOLS USED: 
    Amapi, Tree Designer, Corel draw;

RENDER TIME: 
    28 Minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    Atlon 1GHZ


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Welcome to the Cemetery of lost Truths. On this cemetery they didn't buried
people
but out-of-date knowledge of former times. A lot of such "lost truths" are
connected
with religion and mystical ideas of their ages. So we shouldn't forget that
stories we would
call fantasy today were seen as true facts a few centuries ago. And most of
these lost truths
had a message, p.ex. "The Sun turns around the earth" should make clear the
churches idea
of the mankind as the centre of the universe.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Most of the objects of this image were created with Highlight; a few things like
the ivy-leaf were made
with Amapi. First I covered the floor with ivy (using the Highlight particle
system) then I added the 
tomb-stones and the chapel (all these objects were created with Highlight).
After that I build a tree
with Tree Designer ( based on L-system) and put it in the scene. Then I designed
the textures (my
favourite subject) in Highlight. The "lost truths" were written in Coreldraw,
exported as a bitmap
and then used in Highlight. Because of photographic blur, the moon and the sky
is not clear.
Finally I played a little bit with the position of the lights and then the scene
was perfect.