TITLE: Greek Orthodox Church in Santorini
NAME: Sotiris Georghiou
COUNTRY: UK
EMAIL: emperorsoz@hotmail.com
TOPIC: Architecture
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: santorin.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Brazil R/S v1

TOOLS USED: 
    3D Studio Max R5

RENDER TIME: 
    6 hours 45 mins

HARDWARE USED: 
    Athlon 1.2GHz, 1GB SDRAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


The Greek island of Santorini has many blue-domed churches, which truly are
beautiful.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Modelling took most of the time up, but simply started by using large shapes and
cutting into them, just like a sculptor would. Modelling took me probably about
10 hours.


All the textures used on the building were created fully by me using bump maps,
diffuse maps etc, and a careful combination of both to create the illusion of
dirt and chaos.

This was the first time I had used the Brazil R/S so it took me a very long time
to understand how it worked.  It took much experimenting, but eventually my
lights were positioned in the correct place with the correct parameters to help
Brazil render me a very nice looking image, which i consider to be my best
piece of work to date.

