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- TITLE: Martyrs of Japan, 1597
- NAME: Antoine Valentim
- COUNTRY: Canada
- EMAIL: bumblebee@globalserve.net
- WEBPAGE: http://web.globalserve.net/~bumblebee/ecclesia/ecclesia.htm
- TOPIC: History
- COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
- JPGFILE: martyrs.jpg
- RENDERER USED:
- Pov-Ray 3.1
-
- TOOLS USED:
- Various include files (see below), North Coast Software's Conversion
- Artist 2.02, Microsoft's Paint
-
- RENDER TIME:
- 3h 07m 56s
-
- HARDWARE USED:
- Pentium 166
-
- IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
-
- This image is set in Nagasaki, Japan. On February 5, 1597,
- twenty-six Catholics were crucified there by order of
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the regent; this was the beginning of
- the persecution of the Church in Japan. After the martyrs'
- bodies were taken down from the crosses, a woman goes out
- into a field before the crosses to pray...
-
- These martyrs were declared saints in 1862, and their feast
- day is February 6.
-
- DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
-
- The thing in this image I spent the most time on was the
- face of the Japanese woman. I based it on the blob model
- created by N.B. (winner in the Technical Merit category
- in the May-June 1997 competition). I made her clothes and
- hair from scratch.
-
- The grass was produced by (I think) Gordon Bentley's
- reeds.inc (sorry if I got your name wrong!).
-
- The halo around the sun was produced by an include file
- by Samuel Benge. It's simple yet very nice.
-
- The castle at the left was something I made out of boxes
- and prisms. It's mainly based on Himeji Castle.
-
- The trees in the background are spheres with a partially
- transparent texture, randomly distributed and scaled.
-
- The sky is S_Cloud1 from skies.inc, and I added a fog
- to the scene for effect. And that's about it!
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-