EMAIL: annie.kane@mindspring.com
NAME: Kane Wagner
TOPIC: The City
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Bath House
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: none
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.2
TOOLS USED: Crossroads, 3dWin Converter, 3ds2pov Converter
RENDER TIME: 12 hours 20 minutes 19 seconds
HARDWARE USED: 

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

This is an image of a  public bath house like those you might have found in ancient Rome. 
Large and communal it was not only a place to get clean, it was a social gathering place. 

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The steps, walls, door ways and floor are all primitive boxes.

The dolphins, curtains torches, and dome are meshes I found via the internet, sorry I can't 
remember from whom or where, but I than you anyway. I used Crossroads, 3dWin Converter 
and/or 3ds2pov converter to convert them into pov.

Using John VanSickle's AxisRotate to copy/rotate everything around to make it octagonal I then 
added the ladies. 

Using Lady.inc that I obtained from Yasunari Iwanaga (Japan) , off the PovRay site, to create 
the ladies. I added a set of hair, also a mesh, and other minor modifications to the body. 

Then added lights to the torches and as sunlight above. 

You can only see its shadow, but there is a dome made of wood and glass above the main 
central pool.  

Upon rendering this, it would have taken several days, as there were 49 light 
sources at then time, so I limited the number of angles around the octagon to those that you 
can see.