File: sacrific.jpg
Size: 124617
Date: 10OCT95
Time: 9:43pm EST
Author: Matt Loiselle
AuthorEmail: m.loiselle@ieee.org
Uploader: Matt Loiselle
UploaderEmail: m.loiselle@ieee.org
Short: October '95 Ray-Tracing Competition Entry -- Altar
SuggestedDirectory: /pub/competition/competition-Oct-95

What comes immediately to everyone's mind when they hear the topic
"architecture"? Why, human sacrifice, of course!

Actually, I was playing around with blobs making arches and got the
idea to make an altar of sorts for the October competition.  I decided
to make the picture primitive and brutal by throwing some blood on the
altar and adding some manacles to the sides of the altar.  After all,
I can't imagine anyone being a willing participant to such a thing...

I generated the arches using curving stacks of successively smaller
blobs.  The mountain in the background was made with gforge v1.2a and
the stone texture on the steps came from Viewpoint's copy of the Avalon
archive.  The blood on the altar is an image map generated using a bozo
texture on a plane (I've included the simple scene) and the blood
splashed on the steps around the altar is just a bunch of very small,
randomly placed blobs.  I wrote the whole scene by hand except for
the arches and the small blobs around the altar.  I used Excel to generate
all those.

The thing took about 16 hours to trace on my 386DX40 w/8M with anti-
aliasing set at 0.3.