TITLE: Hope Everywhere NAME: Fatemeh Maleki COUNTRY: Iran EMAIL: fatemeh_maleki@hotmail.com WEBPAGE: Under Construction TOPIC: Desert COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: fmdesert.jpg ZIPFILE: fmdesert.zip RENDERER USED: 3DMax6 TOOLS USED: 3DMAX6 RENDER TIME: about 8 seconds HARDWARE USED: Celeron1.7 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 'Desert',a word recalls thirstiness,death,and an unkind sun.But I believe there is beauty in every God's creature.First,in this age with too much kight polution in cities ,deserts are places to say hello again to the sky and its stars.And second in any situations hope could be fined.If you see my image there is a plant -this plant grows in desert and breaks from its steam then rolls over the ground spreading its seeds- and also it can be seen that there is a movement from left to right (including the plant,the ground ,and the imaginary child who pulls the imaginary kite in the sky(if you connect the stars a kite would be drawn). DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Well,I did all of the work with 3Dmax. 1.GROND: I made a plane ,converted it to editabale mesh ,and made the hills. 2.CAMERA:I put a camera in a place. 3.RENDERING ENVIROMENT:I sellected a map 'noise' in rendering enviroment to make the stars. 4.MOON & STARS(FORMING A KITE):I choosed omni lights for them and added the effect 'RAY' to them. 5.PLANT:For making the plant ,in a new project I made a 1/8 of the plant by making some cylinders wich was deformed by twist,taper,strech,and bend effects. then I assembled them.I copies,pasted,moved, and rotated this 1/8 part for 7 times to make the hole round desert plant. Then I imported the plant as a XRef object to the main project.