TITLE: Web Temple
NAME: James Berlin
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: jberlin@aol.com
WEBPAGE: members.aol.com/jberlin
TOPIC: Worship
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: webtmplx.jpg
ZIPFILE: webtmplx.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    povray 3.0 (via Moray 3.1)

TOOLS USED: 
    none

RENDER TIME: 
    3 hours 26 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    450 MHz Pentium II

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

A night scene of a neoclassic rotunda or temple housing an ornate glowing globe
with a network of electricity or lightening surrounding it.  

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The temple is inspired partially by the roman.pov example scene and by the
Jefferson memorial in Washington, D.C. with some significant differences.  The
scene was rendered by Persistance of Vision 3.0 with the aid of Moray 3.1. 
Most of the temple is composed to straight forward primatives, but the arches
are a particularly complex combination of cylinders and cones.  Please note how
the arches at the tops of the columns mesh perfectly as viewed from inside and
outside.  Quite a number of POV features were used in this rendering including
heightfield, text, bezier patches, sweeps, atmospherics, etc.  Some moray
library textures were used, however, most were "tweaked" and combined
specifically for this scene.  Textures were used as often as possible to reduce
the number of extra GIF files that would be required to regenerate the
rendering.  There are fourteen light sources in the scene to create the flat
moonlit appearance.  The text object uses a common TrueType font (Futura extra
black BT - tt0148m_.ttf) which has been included with the source files just in
case.

