TITLE: When Tetris was God NAME: Romain Guillard COUNTRY: France EMAIL: roms@zebra3.net WEBPAGE: http://romsweb.zebra3.netHARDWARE: a poor out-dated Cyrix 200MX w/32 Mb RAM TOPIC: Ruins COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT JPGFILE: rg_ruins.jpg RENDERER USED: Vue d'Esprit 2.1 TOOLS USED: Rhinoceros for modelling, Photoshop for bitmaps & copyright/title RENDER TIME: approx. 2 hours IMAGE DESCRIPTION: These are ruins of a time -not so far away- when Tetris was God and millions of gamers worshipped Him. They were not using the same tools but they all were "buidling blocks" to show Him their faith. Now the jungle its claiming its due and begins to cover up these old ruins. However, in an other place, the prophet, Alexey Pazhitnov, has founded a new religion. It's name is The New Tetris, but it's another story... DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: First of all (and you might have guessed it), i've been worshipping Tetris as a player for years. In fact this image was part of some Tetris-based pics i was working on when i saw that this round's topic was ruins, so i just modified the image a little to make it fit this topic better. On a technical point of view there's nothing really hard : * the ruins were modelled with Rhinoceros, * the bitmaps were home-made or modified with Photohop, others come from totallyseamless.com. * all vegetations, terrains.. are Vue native. I haven't included the source file as it makes a pretty large one with all bitmpas but feel free to ask, i'd be pleased to send it over to you.