TITLE: ColdLightWarmShadows NAME: Alex Postma COUNTRY: The Netherlands EMAIL: a.v.postma@amc.uva.nl WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7499 TOPIC: Imaginery Worlds COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: coldligh.jpg RENDERER USED: Real3d V3.53 TOOLS USED: none RENDER TIME: 20 hours HARDWARE USED: P166 40mb IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The contest subject was Imaginery Worlds. That gives you quite a lot of freedom; I thought of a world with flowing organic forms cast in hard steel/chrome playing on an alien landscape. I just varied several tube and helical freeform objects until I got the overall look I wanted. Lighten conditions were the result of experiments done in Bryce and recreating it in Real3D. The hard shadows are done on purpose with pointlights to get a contrast with the soft feel of the picture. The overall impression I wanted to make with this picture is that of contrast: steel, organic, light, shadow, soft, sharp. The title was picked up from a poem I liked. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: All textures are procedural. GlobalFog was used and at supersampling 3x3, lightsamples at 1. All the objects are made from meshes. Lighting of the picture was tested in Bryce3d and recreated in Real3d as best I could.