EMAIL: manorton@jps.net
NAME: Mike Norton
TOPIC: Nature
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: daywater (A Day Under Water)
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: http://www.jps.net/manorton/3d
RENDERER USED: Bryce 3D
TOOLS USED: Rhino 3D, solidThinking WIndows BETA
RENDER TIME: 1:04:57
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133, with 32megs Ram
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
I was reading a tutorial on making under water scenes in Bryce.  I tried it
and what do you know, it worked.  Not the greatest, I wish I could show
shafts of light coming down but I think this is a cool image.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
I followed the tutorial and got everything set up for the underwater look.
The lights use a gel that projects a wave pattern to get the wavy look.

I modeled a simple sea floor and then imported the dolphins.  3DS models.
I placed them and then imported the sharks.

I loaded up solidThinking for Windows (Beta 168) and modeled the fish.  The 
are simple but its the 26th, im pressed for time.  I imported them to Rhino
and made a couple of adjustments then saved them as 3DS meshes.
I loaded them into Bryce, replicated and arranged them.  The texture is a 
tileable texture I found on the net.

I origanly tried putting an Orca in the scene but Bryce has a real cheese way
of handling image maps, and I could not get the map correct so I gave up.