"Shangri La" IRTC entry

This picture I made for the November/December 2001 IRTC (Internet Raytracing Competition).

The topic was 'Spirit of Asia', you can have a look at the other entries in this round at the IRTC Website.

It achieved the 6th place out of 64 and a honorable mention for the technical part. The detailed results are:

• artistic merit: 12.818
• technical merit: 14.727
• concept, originality, interpretation of theme: 11.318
• Overall: 12.9545

I wrote a "making of" where you can find more detailed information on how this scene was created.