TITLE: Ashton Night
NAME: Nicholas J. Baudean
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: myx@netten.net
WEBPAGE: http://www.netten.net/~myx
TOPIC: Night
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: ash_nigh.jpg
ZIPFILE: ash_nigh.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Bryce3D

TOOLS USED: 
    Bryce3D

RENDER TIME: 
    54 minutes 34 seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    Cyrix PR200+


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    I spent two weeks after finding out about the competiton and
current topic thinking about what to create. After visiting the hospital on my
9 month old daughter's 6th day of recovery from open heart surgery, I came home
and created "Ashton Night" as a reminder that that was the night I visited her
in the hospital. 4-20-98.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    The image was created soley in
Bryce3D without any image enhancement manipulation from an image editing
program. 

The first step I took was to create the water terrain and use Bryce's complex
default water maps, trying different textures until I found one that was
acceptable.
Next, I created the Sky&Fog, setting Shadows, Haze, Cloud Height and Cloud Cover
attributes and Colors until I was content.
I then utilized the new features of Bryce's Environmental Attributes, after
creating the moon, to get the realistic look that I was looking for. 
Lastly, I positioned the camera to a desiriable height and set the rendering
settings to 800 X 600 and anti-aliasing to Superfine.