Reconstruction of the Oracle at Delphi by flyhippie

Bryce • Historical • posted on Mar 26, 2003

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Description

This is an un-completed piece. I do realize there are more columns in the original Oracle, but the size of this appealed to me. I created all of the columns using boolean geometry in BYRCE5, then added the mountains and ocean in the backgraound. I also used the focused perspective rendering. Hope you like it.. =)

Comments (8)

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calum5

7:06PM | Wed, 26 March 2003

Super scene with excellent atmosphere!The texture on the oracle is really cool.Excellent image..:)

flyhippie

9:21PM | Thu, 27 March 2003

Thanks calum5, feels good to have others give positive feedback. Its people like you who make me love what I do.

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RaysOfLight

10:13PM | Thu, 27 March 2003

there's 2 things i love about this pic, and 1 thing i admire. i love the reflective surface in the centre of the oracle, the texture of the columnts etc, and i truly admire the patience it took to make those columns out of booleans in bryce heheh. i tried it once in lightwave which has even more precision and never again heheh. the improvement from one picture to the next is amazing

alvinylaya

10:26AM | Fri, 28 March 2003

Great modelling. I look forward to the completed piece. My Compliments.

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FitArtistSF

11:26PM | Fri, 28 March 2003

Remember, the Greeks created their columns with a slight distortion. They were not totally straight up and down. The lower part of the column was slightly wider around than toward the top. This was to correct a visual distortion they perceived when standing at the base and looking up to the capital of the column. When a straight column is viewed from below at the base, it has a tendency to flair out at the top. When corrected, with the base of the column slightly wider, the top seems to look visually correct. Even today, we build our buildings with the Greek columns, with the slight flair of the lower half of the shaft. Look at the ruins of old structures and our government buildings, they all have this corrected visual architectural element....

flyhippie

3:20PM | Sun, 30 March 2003

Yes- thank you FitartistSF. I am aware of that - I built this image with about 4 good photos on the original site. I am currently busy on other projects- but I will however come back to this image. And thanks for your input with a Kudos snap for your knowledge on Greek Architecture.

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