EMAIL: matthias@saftsack.fs.uni-bayreuth.de
NAME: Matthias Knauer
TOPIC: Ruins
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Old Fame
COUNTRY: Germany
WEBPAGE: saftsack.fs.uni-bayreuth.de/~matthias
RENDERER USED: Povray 3
TOOLS USED: Gimp, Perl
JPGFILE: oldfame.jpg
RENDER TIME: 2 hours 50 minutes 50.0 seconds
HARDWARE USED: Pentium III, 450MHz, 64 MB
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
By looking at some remnants of the Roman Empire, the spectator is thinking
about that old era. 
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
I started with the theater and tried to model it from sketches I found in my
Latin Dictionary.  Later I started another scene with the wall, the column
and the armament (from the comics of Asterix) and thought that it would 
look quite nice, re-unite the original theater with the Roman stuff which 
still exists today.
I know that the background looks a little bit boring, but I liked its 
oil-painting-like look. 
The grass and the feathers were created by a perl skript, which is enclosed
in the zip file.
The height_fields (mountains, landscape, wall) were created with gimp.

Ok, I hope you remember your Latin lessons :-)
Matthias Knauer, 28.2.2000