TITLE: A higher dimension NAME: Romain Guillard COUNTRY: France EMAIL: rguillard@claranet.fr WEBPAGE: http://home.fr.clara.net/rguillard/vue2 TOPIC: Imaginary Worlds COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT JPGFILE: higher_d.jpg ZIPFILE: higher_d.zip RENDERER USED: Vue d'Esprit 2 TOOLS USED: sPatch for modelling Photoshop 4 for text, JPEG compression and Gamma correction RENDER TIME: 2h 06min 52sec HARDWARE: Pentium 200, 32Mb RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I just imagined a world on a higher dimension from which other people (aliens? gods?) could control and watch our planet. While we believe that earth is part of an infinite universe, it is just a little part of their world. Is it our world or theirs that is imaginary ? Do you think someone else is watching them ? DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Technically, there was nothing very difficult to do in this picture. For objects I either used primitives available in Vue d'esprit or modeled them with sPatch and then assembled them inside Vue d'Esprit. Good-looking skies can sometime be hard to get with some renderers but as Vue d'Esprit is a landscape generator they were quite easy to do. The texture I used for the earth is from XXXXX, I've downloaded it some time ago from the SWMA (http://www.surfthe.net/swma/index.html).