EMAIL: flubula@yahoo.com
NAME: Matthew Benincasa
TOPIC: Worlds Within Worlds
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TITLE: 1769
COUNTRY: United States Of America
WEBPAGE: www.splitconsciousness.com
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.