TITLE: Golden Temple
NAME: Tony Micklus
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: tony@awmcs.net
WEBPAGE: http://www.awmcs.net/artgallery
TOPIC: Worship
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: goldtemp.jpg
ZIPFILE: goldtemp.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1g

TOOLS USED: 
    Image Composer 1.5 (For JPG conversion and Text)

RENDER TIME: 
    7 minutes 27 seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium III 866MHz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

This image combines temples where people worship and gold which is what a lot of
people worship. Hence a temple of gold. 

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Sky - Blue Fog
Moon - Sphere with high diffuse
Clouds - Box object w/ Bozo Pattern
Mountains - Height Field sculpted by Spheres w/ Wrinkle pattern.
Temple - Bricks are boxes shaved to an angle w/ CSG then mathematically placed.
the door was then "subtracted" out of the building. Texture is out of the
golds.inc file.  
Sun - Sphere with media. 
Lens Flare - Created using Chris Colefax's Lensflare include file. 
Stairs - A loop creating progressively larger boxes.

The source file has everything you need to render the image except the lensflare
include which you will have to download from Chris Colefax's site.