TITLE: Night Battle NAME: Carlos Pena Cativo COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: cpcativo@yahoo.com WEBPAGE: www.geocities.com/cpcativo/blender.html TOPIC: Warfare COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: nb.jpg RENDERER USED: Blender 2.20 TOOLS USED: iPhoto Plus RENDER TIME: ~2 minutes, 0 sec. HARDWARE USED: E-Machines, Intel Celeron 400MHZ, 4GB HD, 160MB memory. IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Image of the battle for Guadalcanal, in which the battleships USS South Dakota(foreground), and USS Washington(background), with their escort, opposed the Japanese force consisting of 2 battleships, cruisers and destroyers. In the battle the Japanese battleship Kirishima was destroyed by fire comming from the USS Washington. Image inspired by a painting depicting a battle during the War of 1812. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Everything was created using Blender Creator(Blender 2.20). The ships are composed of meshes, based mostly on ship plans and photographs (couldn't model Kirishima for lack of reference material). Used Blender's particle system for the fire, smoke and the wake. Used iPhoto Plus to add the copyright.