NAME : Amine Rehioui
EMAIL: aminouch@usa.net
COUNTRY : Morocco
TOPIC: Wilderness
TITLE: "sahara"
WEBPAGE : http://www.members.tripod.com/aminouch
COPYRIGHT: i submit to the standart raytracing competition copyright.

RENDERER USED: 3DS max R3
RENDERING TIME: 30 mn with antialiasing 1.5
HARDWARE : Pentium 166, 64mb of RAM, 2gb Hard-drive, PCI 4mb.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
this image shows you a little part of the biggest desert in the world,
the Sahara, a pure wilderness, where the rain never fall. 

HOW THIS IMAGE WAS MADE:
-the sands is simple quad_patches with displacement, and mapped
with a nice texture.
-the stones are spheres with noise modifier, and different start values.
-the sun is a light with glow & ray effect.
-the for effects are gizmo spheres with combustion inside.
-the birds have been made with low poly.

That's all, see you soon 
Amine Rehioui 
www.members.tripod.com/aminouch