TITLE: Prize of the Seas NAME: Alex Pfeiffer EMAIL: Dark_steel_dragon@hotmail.com TOPIC: Forces of Nature COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: blackpea.jpg IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This image is of a clam sitting in the water in a tropical environment, all by its lonesome. No clam diggers trying to steal its prize, no predators trying to feed on its meat. A force of nature doesn't have to be something destructive, but what nature in itself is capable of. A black pearl, a rarity and a beauty, can show what even natures simpiliest creatures can produce. However, on the flip side, something of such rarity purges greed inside humans, which in this case would be the "destructive" force of nature within the pearl of the clam. This clam though, is not touched by human contact, and is a beauty for nature only. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The clam was created in Rhino and was a curve revolves around to form the 2 sides of the shell. The texture for the shell (while hard to see with the focus on the pearl itself) was taken from a picture of a clam, since the picture had some water and surrounding in it, I had to crop a section of the clam out. The pearl was a basic bryce 5 sphere and changed with different effects to make it appear as a shining pearl. The fish were not created by me, they were taken from Toucan, where they were available free for download. The scene was put together in Bryce 5.