TITLE: Year 2100 Rush Hour NAME: Raymond A. Salvatore COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: bonsalva@bellsouth.net TOPIC: City COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: rascity.jpg RENDERER USED: Raydream Studio 5 raytracer TOOLS USED: Raydream Studio, Micrographix Picture Publisher,HP digital camera RENDER TIME: 4 hours approx. HARDWARE USED: PENTIUM 233 MMX WITH 192 MEG SDRAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: By the year 2100 there will be no need for roads because of the discovery of simple, lowcost, lowpower antigravity. Cities will pop up everywhere. But there will still be the rush hour because employers still havn't figured out how to stagger an 8 hour work day. In the future dogs will still not be allowed to drive. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: For the buildings I tried to use texture rather than constuction to convey a fututistic look. I also used a lot of round shapes. By using a bump map with squares or lines and also using a transparency map for glass, I was able to make a futuristic city. I also put buildings behind the camera to reflect in the cars' domes. While I was designing the cars my son told me that he had dreamed I was designing cars with 50's type of fins. So I did. I tried to make them look different from the usual "future cars." I also designed a basic car which was modified many times to get as many differently designed cars with the same "look." Those are headlights on the bottom front and the sphere on the back is the atomic power plant. The headlight is a squashed sphere with a glow texture and the powerplant is a couple of nested spheres with a fractal color scheme with a glow map. The people are just extruded shapes. To make the characters in the cars, I used a camera to take a picture of my dog Spike and myself with my face pressed against a car's window. I used the pictures to texture a cylinder (my face) and a squashed sphere (Spike). I subtacted the spheroid and cylinder from the cars' domes using intersection, after first duplicating all of the involved objects. Then I placed the textured pieces into the domes.