TITLE: Sacred Script
NAME: Marlo Steed
COUNTRY: Canada
EMAIL: marlo.steed@home.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.edu.uleth.ca/faculty/members/steed/MarloSteed.html
TOPIC: Worship
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: sacred_s.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Strata 3D Pro

TOOLS USED: 
    Strat 3D Pro, Sculptor PPC, Painter

RENDER TIME: 
    2 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    Mac G4, 256 MB, dual 450

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

In 1947, a young Bedouin shepherd, searching for a stray goat in the Judean
Desert, entered a long-untouched cave and found jars filled with ancient
scrolls.  Enter the Dead Sea Scolls.  Anciently holy journals were kept
regarding God's dealing with His children on earth and were recorded on
parchment and in rare instances these have been preserved for us in our day. 
Thus we have scriptures which testify of Whom we should worship.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

This is a simple image, nothing too complex here but I like the atmosphere I was
able to achieve.  The cave was sculpted using Sculptor PPC.  The Texuters were
created in Painter.  The the objects in the scene are a combination of
extrusions (scroll), skinning  (breastplate, sword) sweeps (clay pot),
metaballs (sword handle, scroll handles) and deformations (helment, sword
guard).  The ragged worn look of the parchment is achieved with a combination
of worn textures, bump map, stencil map, and corrosion texture (used to
randomly rip holes in the paper).  Two spot lights are used to achieve the holy
light from above with a volumetric texture applied.  There is also one omni
light that is set to emulate an external light source.

