TITLE: The Desert Temple
NAME: Lutz-Peter Hooge
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: lutz-peter@hoogi.de
WEBPAGE: www.hoogi.de/lutz-peter
TOPIC: Fantasy and Mystic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: lph_temp.jpg
ZIPFILE: lph_temp.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    MegaPov 0.7

TOOLS USED: 
    Paint Shop Pro 6.1 for contrast adjustments and the heightfield for
the footprints, Irfanview 3.33 for jpeg conversion

RENDER TIME: 
    17h

HARDWARE USED: 
    Athlon 500 MHz, 256 MB RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

A strange building somewhere deep in the desert...


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

This is my first IRTC entry. The scene is completely hand-scripted,
no special techniques used, just spheres, isosurfaces, superellipsoids.
And #while loops, of course.
The footprints are made of an iso-heightfield. I drawed the shape in PSP,
blurred it,
und used it in a image_map, wich I added to the function of the floor-iso.
Some media-clouds in the distance are mainly responsible for the slow render.
I used an unevenly scaled sphere as a container and some density statements.

