TITLE: Ride The Wind NAME: Raymond A. Salvatore COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: bonsalva@bellsouth.net TOPIC: SEA COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: rassea.jpg RENDERER USED: Raydream Studio 5 raytracer TOOLS USED: Raydream Studio 5.5, Micrografix Picture Publisher RENDER TIME: 30 minutes HARDWARE USED: PENTIUM 233 MMX WITH 192 MEG SDRAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This ship is loosely based on the USS Constitution. I took many pictures of it when I was in Boston and I plan to do more detailing in the future. It's the oldest ship still in service anywhere. The sailing rig shown was the only one being used at the time. The money from donations and admission to the ship was being used to buy sails. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The ship's hull was built with extruded sections. It is hollow with two decks below. If I didn't plan on making this a future project I would have taken the easy way out and just made one solid shape. I made the first mast assymbly with cylinders and extruded circles as poles and curved ropes. I duplicated and enlarged the masts after finishimg the first one. The sails are extruded rectangles that are very tall but very thin. The sea is made of two duplicate mesh files in the Four Elements part of Ray Dream Studio. I created them to look like rolling waves. One partially pushes up through the other. The top one has more transparency and a lighter texture. Both use a natural spotted bump map rather than the "official" water bump map from Four Elements. I also deformed both meshes with a planar wave deformation- one slightly more than the other. I also used Four Elements for the sky. I wanted a more impressive and violent sky than a regular natural looking one. My goal was to create a picture similar to the maritime paintings of the 1800's. I hope to do more with this model.