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.