TITLE: God's Throne
NAME: Marietta E. Cameron
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: mcameron@bsc.edu
WEBPAGE: http://mc1.bsc.edu/mcameron
TOPIC: Landmarks
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: throne.jpg
ZIPFILE: throne.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    povray 3.1

TOOLS USED: 


RENDER TIME: 
    10 minutes 45 seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    Compaq DeskPro 300Mhz 64MB RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

  Yet another possibilty of what St. John really saw in Revelations. The throne
of 
God is definitely a landmark in the city of new Jeruselum.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The "throne" is composed of four height fields. The waterfalls are made of
spherical
blobs. The spherical components somewhat follow the the equation y=-10*x^2, 
-0.5 <= z <= 1.0.
Some what because there are small random values added to the results. The
textures
are modifications of the textures provided in the include directory of povray.
 
To those of you looking at my source, I had orginally planned volcanos in this
scene
but modeling realistic fire was not working out for me ........hence the
extreme amount of commented out code.



