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