EMAIL: frank.epple@augsburg.baynet.de NAME: Frank Epple TOPIC: Elements COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Temple of the four elements COUNTRY: Germany WEBPAGE: http://home.augsburg.baynet.de/frank.epple RENDERER USED: PovRAY 3.0 TOOLS USED: Terrain Maker, Blob Sculptor, Paint Shop Pro RENDER TIME: 52 Minutes 37 Seconds HARDWARE USED: Pentium 166 Mhz, 64 MByte IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The greek philosopher Empedokles said, that everything is made out of four elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water. Based on this statement I made a scene, showing the temple of the four elements. It is fictionary, but maybe it existed really... DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The scene shows the temple in front of a bay. The landscape in the background is made with Terrain Maker. The two rocks in front are made with Blob Sculptor. Paint Shop Pro was used to refine the image maps a little, to sign in my name in the corner and to convert the image to JPEG. The four elements are standing in front of a temple. Every element is inside a glass sphere. The sphere at the back is filled with air. As air is transparent, I used some clouds to represent the air. The left sphere contains water. The right sphere contains fire. It is made with a halo. The sphere nearest to the viewer contains earth. To make this sphere more interesting, I put some plants into the earth.