TITLE: 1769
NAME: Matthew Benincasa
COUNTRY: United States Of America
EMAIL: flubula@yahoo.com
WEBPAGE: www.splitconsciousness.com
TOPIC: Worlds Within Worlds
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: flubs176.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Specular Infini-D 3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    Adobe Photoshop 5.0

RENDER TIME: 
    time your image took to render

HARDWARE USED: 
    Powerbook G3 64mb Ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    The scene is a room in a late 18th century style, with a
miniature
town inside it.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    There are 7 light sources in this
scene each of which is a distinct colour from the spectrum being red orange
yellow 
green blue indigo and violet. I found not only does this create interesting
colour 
variations with the multiple shadows but on objects that are close to the suface

their shadow falls on this creates a nice blurring effect. As this program is
older 
it does not on it owns have any lense or focus effects. 

I spent more time generating textures for this model than I did actually
modeling it. I spent more time web browsing and reading pages than I did
generating 
or modifying textures. I guess what I learned from this project is that planning
and 
pre-thinking do go a long way. I didn't have an outline drawn up, but even
before I 
created the new scene in infini-d I already had an idea of the basic dimensions
layout 
and scale of the  project. In previous projects I started with a single object
and worked 
my way into a full scene. Typically my results were semi realistic but abstract
in that 
it was obvious there was no single scale reference for the objects in the room.


In addition I employed multiple smaller cameras for trouble shooting purposes.
After 
adding elements I would render sample images from multiple angles to see how it

worked with the scene. All together I probably rendered over 150 sample images
just 
for this purpose.