TITLE: Astres NAME: yves Lejeail COUNTRY: France EMAIL: yves.lejeail@tiscali.fr TOPIC: great inventions COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: astres.jpg RENDERER USED: Cinema4D CE6+ TOOLS USED: The Gimp RENDER TIME: 3h HARDWARE USED: PIII 933MHz 256Mb RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I just tried to represent some objects very important in the history, coming from the recent past, but some are still used at this time. For the Astrolab, I found a picture of one example on the net and tried to reproduce it DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: All the objects use primitives and revolution splines/hypernurbs. They are simple to create (for the astrolab a rotation was applied to the central part at the end of the creation). Textures were created in The Gimp (for the figures and the ticks/marks which were applied as a layer with alpha transparency). The other materials are classical, but I applied also a kind of dust on all the objects (with alpha transparency)