TITLE: cheshire & candle NAME: gary knowles COUNTRY: usa EMAIL: cmonkey3d@yahoo.com TOPIC: fog and light COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: cnc.jpg ZIPFILE: cnc.zip RENDERER USED: pixie (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~okan/Pixie/pixie.htm) TOOLS USED: hamapatch, irfanview RENDER TIME: 2315 S (shadow map) + 1733 S (render) HARDWARE USED: 266 Mhz PII/ 256 M memory IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Cheshire lips blowing foggy breath across a frosted glass candle. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: First time i ever tried anything like this so i thought i should go with the karate kid strategy and just concentrait on a couple of things. Lips: Modeled in hamapatch, embossed with a little texture to give them crinckles and shaded with a skin shader. Didn't include the shaders in the zip (not sure about the copyright stuff) but they can be found at www.renderman.org. Breath: Made a twisty tornado like shape in hamapatch, then shrunk it in on itself to get several layers. Shaded it with a wood grain shader that was modified to vary opacity instead of color. Candle: Started out with a cylinder and a torus. Wrote a displacement shader to give it the diamond texture and then shaded it with a plastic surface shader modified to be translucent.