TITLE: Aurora NAME: Vesa Palttala COUNTRY: Finland EMAIL: pave@sci.fi WEBPAGE: www.saunalahti.fi/~paveRender used: Imagine for Windows 1.9.5 TOPIC: History COPYRIGHT: I submit to the standard raytracing competition copyright. JPGFILE: aurora.jpg ZIPFILE: aurora.zip TOOLS USED: Imagine, Poser 1 RENDER TIME: 3 hours HARDWARE USED: P2 266, 128M ram IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Instead of all those madmen our history books are full of, I wanted to give sort of homage for ordinary people and their work. I also tried to achieve samekind romantic feeling seen in works of old seascape painters. Description of how this image was done: I used arch-schemas of an old german park ship to make spline cage for skinning. Thats how I got the basic body of the ship. All the other parts were also modelled in Imagine, except sailors were imported from Poser. Sea constructs of two infinitive planes, set very near top of each other. The upper one is textured as water, bottom one as foam. Wave texture makes the foamy part cut through in certain parts of the sea. No mapping of any kind was used. All the surface details are made with Imagines procedural shaders, many of tham shareware coded by Ingvar Lybing and Alan Bucior.