TITLE: Atomic Tennis
NAME: Rainer Appel
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: appel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
WEBPAGE: http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~appel/raytracing/
TOPIC: Physics & Math
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: atomtnis.jpg
ZIPFILE: atomtnis.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    REFLECTIONS 4.06

TOOLS USED: 
    Personal Paint, Image Engineer

RENDER TIME: 
    11h

HARDWARE USED: 
    Amiga 4000/040

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Two androids (model VL 4215/36) playing atomic tennis using special
abacus rackets. Please don't try this at home! Playing tennis with
atoms can cause really nasty nuclear fissions.
Perhaps there could be more details but on the other hand they can't
destroy very much in a dull and boring world like this if something
unexpected happens.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

No special tricks I think, just modelling with REFLECTIONS.
REFLECTIONS is a low-cost raytracer that comes with a more or less
easy to use 3D-modeller. Ok, it's not perfect and sometimes it behaves
somewhat weird, but if you get used to it you can get nice results.
For more information about REFLECTIONS check out
http://www.oberland.com/reflections/

The image maps for the court and the net were drawn with Personal
Paint. For gamma correction and conversion to JPEG I used a shareware
image processing tool called Image Engineer.
Note that the only hardware I used to create this was my good old
Amiga 4000!

The .zip file is only usefull if you have REFLECTIONS 4.0!!! I haven't
included the complete scene because it was to big. The androids and
some other parts are missing.