TITLE: Fungi NAME: Richard Massey COUNTRY: UK EMAIL: richardmassey87@hotmail.com WEBPAGE: http://www.rivenuk.homestead.com TOPIC: Surrealism COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: fungi.jpg RENDERER USED: Bryce 3D TOOLS USED: N/A RENDER TIME: ? HARDWARE USED: Pentium 4 Windows XP IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Rene Magrite is one of the world's greatest Surrealist painters, and 'The Human Condition, I' is probably his most appreciated work. This image is a 'tribute' to the painting, and is based on Magrite's notorious easel motif, portraying it in a more unusual, surreal and perhaps sinister way. I believe that this image raises an important question - can we believe what we see? The large mushrooms - are they rock, or are they real? The painting on the easel seems too accurate to be that of a painting - so is it real, or an illusion? First impressions can be wrong - can we truly believe everything we see here? DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: *The mushroom rocks were assembled - large boolean spheres on rock objects *Backround landscape and railings were built *The upper easel was constructed using cuboid and cylinder objects *The lower easel was created separately, and later added on the main file *Sky was edited, and camera angle adjusted to complete the optical illusion