EMAIL: nate@housepixels.com NAME: Nate Ryan TOPIC: Decay COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Fungus Dance COUNTRY: United States WEBPAGE: http://www.housepixels.com RENDERER USED: Art Of Illusion 1.6 TOOLS USED: Forester/Arboretum RENDER TIME: 5 hours 15 minutes HARDWARE USED: Pentium4 2.8 MHz IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A tree trunk slowly decaying with the help of several fungi and moss in dappled sunlight. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The trunk and roots were created with Forester's Arboretum tool - a recursive 3D tree generator ( http://www.dartnall.f9.co.uk/forester ). Some additional modifications to the trunk and roots were done in Art Of Illusion (AOI). All other modeling was done natively in AOI ( http://www.artofillusion.org ). All texturing done in AOI. The trunk texture is from a digital photo I took. All other textures (including the background) were procedurally created in AOI. I used texture displacement on moss, trunk, and morel caps. Monte Carlo Global Illumination was enabled.