TITLE: City of the Ancients
NAME: Nigel Briggs
COUNTRY: England
EMAIL: NBriggs@energis.co.uk
WEBPAGE: http://mudhole.spodnet.uk.com/~jinx
TOPIC: Imaginary Worlds
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: ancients.jpg
ZIPFILE: ancients.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    PoV-Ray 3.x

TOOLS USED: 
    Visio (CAD-package)

RENDER TIME: 


HARDWARE USED: 
    P233


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Appearing out of the mist, the high walkways and slender stairwells climb up
into the clouds
of a cold, desolate world.
Who built this place, why and where did they go?
I cannot answer that, I can only imagine... 


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Scene was mapped out in Visio, with different colours for the various levels.
Decided to split the scene into 10 include files, 5 for the "platforms" and 5
for the "steps".
Tried to get the scene looking "right" with area_lights, but in the end went for
radiosity, and
a large white disc with a high ambience...

Tried a few different textures (stones, metals, etc), but none of them looked
right against the
backdrop. In the end, I settled for this monotonous grey, to offset the green
atmosphere...

Spent the next few days just "tweaking" bits here and there. Particularly the
foreground steps
and platform.

