TITLE: Heroic Flight Past Danger
NAME: Raymond A. Salvatore
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: bonsalva@bellsouth.net
TOPIC: History
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: rasballo.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Raydream Studio 5 raytracer

TOOLS USED: 
    Raydream Studio 5 , Micrografix Picture Publisher, Adobe Illustrator

RENDER TIME: 
    30 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    PENTIUM 233 MMX WITH 64 MEG SDRAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    On March 20, 1999 at 9 hours 54 minutes GMT, the crew
  of the balloon, Orbiter 3, became the first in history to circumnavigate
  the globe with a non-stop, non-refueled flight.  It lasted 19 days
  1 hour and 49 minutes.  I was working on a "Nautilus crossing the North
  Pole" kind of picture when I heard about the balloonists.  So I changed
  my subject in honor of Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones.  

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    I created the main balloon in
  the free-form modeling area using circular cross-sections.  The whole balloon

  is there, but I would lose detail if I backed the camera out, so I
  chose to focus on the gondola, which was made using csg objects over
  and over again.  The propane tanks are free-forms that were lathed.
  The solar-cell kite is mainly a csg object.  I used Four Elements for
  the sky and flame on the propane burner.  The mountains were also made
  in Four Elements.  I purposely tilted the camera to see the sky as 
  the two heroes would have seen it traveling in the jet stream.