TITLE: Falling Water NAME: Chris Bunker COUNTRY: UK EMAIL: timbunker@eclipse.co.uk TOPIC: elements COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: cdbwater.jpg RENDERER USED: Stratavision 3d .v4 TOOLS USED: Extreme 3d RENDER TIME: 38 minutes HARDWARE USED: Macintosh Performa 5200 DESCRIPTION OF IMAGE : i wanted to create an image incorperating the traditional four elements of nature, earth, wind, fire, and water, so the stone cup repreesents the earth, the water pouring out of it the water, into the air, and the fire is represented by the glowing of the bottom of the cup . DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: the water, cup and droplets where modled in Extreme 3d then saved seperatly and DFX files and imported into Stratavision for texture mapping and rendering . I created the glow effect with a custom colour map created in Photoshop .