TITLE: Temple
NAME: Alun Thomas
COUNTRY: UK
EMAIL: thomas_alun@lineone.net
WEBPAGE: none
TOPIC: Spirit of Asia
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: asia1.jpg
ZIPFILE: asia1.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    WinPOVRay 3.5 beta 9

TOOLS USED: 
    POV Editor,
         Calimax Modeller (for Temple model),
         ImageForge (for conversion to JPG)

RENDER TIME: 
    about 2 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    P2 / 400MHz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

        A temple perched on a cliftop overlooks a mist shrouded valley.
        Inspired by an image I found on a museum site dealing with Asian
        artwork:
        
http://www.artsmia.org/arts-of-asia/china/selected-works/corridor-large-1.cfm

        I've tried to create something that looks like it was painted on silk,
and
        I've also tried to emulate the use of blank areas of the image to
suggest
        large open spaces.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

        Technically speaking, there's nothing terribly sophisticated in this
        image - my cliff and distant mountains are height-fields (I've had too
much
        trouble getting isosurfaces do do what I want...). And the for effect
on
        the distant mountains is faked with a few vertical planes that fade
between
        transparent and the background colour. 

        All in all, this is a bit more rushed than I'd have liked, since I
didn't
        come up with the idea until about halfway through the round. All things
        considered, I'm not too dissatissfied with the way its turned out.

        One day, I'll leave myself time to write a propper description.... :-(

        Thanks,
        Alun.