TITLE: Four Elephants NAME: Raymond A. Salvatore COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: bonsalva@bellsouth.net TOPIC: elements COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: ras4elep.jpg RENDERER USED: Raydream Studio 5 raytracer TOOLS USED: Fractint 19, Raydream Studio, Picture Publisher, Adobe Illustrator RENDER TIME: 1 hour 45 minutes HARDWARE USED: PENTIUM 233 MMX WITH 64 MEG SDRAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: earth, fire, water and air- the four elements of creation as seen as Four Fantastic Elephant Avatars! DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I used Fractint to produce the star field that I used for the background. Also for the background I used 2 spherical fogs with settings that produce clumps. I also used a fog for the comet's tail and cloud for the comet's head. There are 2 lights in the comet's head, one blue and one white. I also set the lights to produce light spheres. I used Illustrator to draw elephant outlines that produced the extruded shapes in Raydream's "freeform modeler." I used Boolean unions to make the whole elephants. To make the hole in the green cube for the water elephant I used subtraction and then added the water elephant twice, once for the clear blue surface elephant {with a wave deformer } and once below for a solid white reflecting layer. There's a blue light just above the water and a red light just behind the fire elephant. I used the Raydream fire primitive for the surface of that elephant and also added a glow channel to the texture. There is also a "gel" over the blue water light made from an tiff from a swimming pool photo. The earth elephant used a mudd photo to make the texture. The air elephant was spherically deformed and then shattered to produce the balloon effect and then given a chrome texture.