EMAIL: mika.koivistoinen@kymp.net NAME: Mika Koivistoinen TOPIC: Museum COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Fire museum COUNTRY: Finland WEBPAGE: http://users.kymp.net/cable062/ RENDERER USED: Blender 2.35 TOOLS USED: Adobe Photoshop 7 RENDER TIME: 12 minutes 2 seconds HARDWARE USED: Amd Athlon 64 3000+ @ 2000 MHz, Radeon 9600 Pro, 512 Mt of memory IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Museum where fire is being presented... sounds a bit absurd. I've got an idea for this image from a comic book and thought that that would be nice to do myself. The joke in this picture is that an ordinary campfire has not changed since 100 000 bc.. There are two fires beeing presented in glass cabinets from different time periods. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I try to explain something of how I made this picture. This is actually one of my first bigger works. I have previously made only some simple scenes. Nothing with this many objects. Firewoods are just simple cylinders. I just used Blenders own wood texture on them and made it to affect the shape of the woods a little bit. The fire itself is a particle effect which I was actually just learning to do. There are some sparks also in the fire. The glass cabinets are simple cubes with a transparency effect and a bit of reflection. The base color of glass is green which I think real glass is also. There is nothing special in the mounting. The signs are plane meshes with photoshop-made pictures as a texture. The pedestal is a bit bigger than the glass cabinets. It would have looked strange if the pedestal and cabinet would have been exact match. The floor is a plane with some marble and noise texture. There is also a bit of reflectivity. I made it also to ripple a little to make it look like real floor (which hardly ever is absolutely sleek and shiny). Though you can't really see my little tweakings in the picture. There are 15 spotlights and 15 regular lamps in the picture to make the realistic looking lighting effect. The batten is a simple cuboid with a wood texture. The wall has a little noise to affect its shape to make it appear more rough. Fire extinguishers are duplicates. The red part has some specularity and mirror effect and the meter has an image as a texture. The extinguishers are actually the most complex parts of this image, having more vertices than other objects. The pictures at the wall are renderings of flames I made just for this pic. The frames are also just cuboids with a darker wood texture.