TITLE: The Round Table NAME: Marlo Steed COUNTRY: Canada EMAIL: marlo.steed@uleth.ca WEBPAGE: http://www.edu.uleth.ca/faculty/members/steed/ TOPIC: Mythology COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: roundtab.jpg RENDERER USED: Lightwave TOOLS USED: Lightwave for modeling and rendering - Painter for creating the textures RENDER TIME: Radiosity - 7 hours HARDWARE USED: Powerbook G4 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Morning dawns on Camelot. It is early and King Author and his knights are on their way to the great hall and the round table. This is where truth and freedom reign. This is classic mythology. The concept of the round table was combined with the unicorn which is another mythological medieval symbol that links to the same time period. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The entire model was created from scratch. The pillars started out as cylinders, the pillar supports started out as wedge primitives. Most of the sharp edges have been routered to give that well-worn and aged look. Spline curves were used as starting curves for the entryways and hallway ceiling which were then extruded. The dome was a modified sphere. The table was a modified wedge with routered edges. The unicorn table centerpiece started out with a silhouette of a horse that was extruded and then subdivided and then polygons and points were pushed and pulled to shape the unicorn bust. The chair frames and arms were created by a combination of cylinder primities and boxes that were shooth shifted, cut, and tranformed by size, rotation and position. The chair backs were created with a special tool called magic bevel. The cushions seats were boxes and the cushion backs were spline curves that were extruded and then routered. Subdivision surfaces were used to smooth many of objects. The sun shining in from the left is a spot light with volumetrics applied. There are two spot lights above the table one to emulate the the red glow from the fire the other to provide more light to the table top. There were four other linear lights that fake radiosity along the walls and under the archways. The icons that show up on the wall shields, table, chairs, and chest were obtained from Art Explosion CD (royalty free clipart). The tapestries are original medieval tapestries and any copyright has long since expired. The rest of the textures and bump maps were either public domain images or created with procedurals or custom image maps. The inscriptions in the table were created with bump maps; Camelot - The truth shall make you free." (Bible - John 8:32).