TITLE: Power & Beauty NAME: Michele Wilcox COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: roanimare@aol.com TOPIC: Sea COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: mjwsea.jpg RENDERER USED: Bryce 4 TOOLS USED: Bryce 4 RENDER TIME: 43 13 HARDWARE USED: Dell Dimension XPS, Pentium 3 MMX, T500, 128 MB IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Caught up in a huge rip-tide, I almost lost my life. I have tremendous respect for the sea and know its awesome strength and power. This image depicts that strength and power -- and the beauty of the sea. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Everything in this image was done in Bryce4 and rendered in Bryce4 which is a totally new program to me. To make the wave -- I took a lattice - now my favorite object -- and experimented with it in the edit object area by going into the filter section and selecting the KPT5 twirl until I felt it looked like a wave. I then turned it on it's side to create my big wave. I added a water material to the wave and added a water object. To add the foam and turbulent water, I used more lattices with different cloud textures and stretched and moved them around until they looked how I wanted. I wanted the wave and water as my focal point of the image, so I experimented with the rock textures, finally feeling that a dark rock would not take away from the wave.