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!

