TITLE: Apples and Oranges
NAME: Aaron Griffith
COUNTRY: United States of America



EMAIL: aargri@gmail.com
TOPIC: Opposites
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: apples.jpg
ZIPFILE: apples.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Blender 2.37a

TOOLS USED: 
    Zblur Blender Plugin by Strubi
               Nikon CoolPix880 for texture sources and backdrop
               Gimp for textures, brightness/contrast, and text

RENDER TIME: 
    1 hour 13 minutes 31 seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    AMD Athlon XP 2500+ 1.84GHz, 1.00GB of RAM
               Running Ubuntu Linux 5.10 "Breezy Badger"





IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Comparing apples  and oranges has been a metaphor used for centuries
to describe comparing  to things  that are non-comparable. These two
fruits  are  so different, so  opposite  from  each other  that they
cannot even be compared to one another.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

After  deciding  upon a  theme,  I set to work making an apple. For a
reference, I went out to find the "appleist" apple and the "orangeist"
orange. I  settled  for a Granny  Smith  apple and a Navel orange. To
make the textures,  I took a photo of each fruit from above, and then
de-polarized them from the Gimp, making a good sphere map. Then I set
about making  specular, bump, etc.  maps out of my best speculations.
To model each fruit, I started with a sphere and deformed it until it
looked approximatly  like the  originals. To make the scene look more
like a  close-up image, I  added a Depth of  Field effect and added a
backdrop image. I  threw in a few coffee mugs  in the  back, placed a
couple of  fruit duplicate s for "spice",  added some area lights and
Ambient Occlusion, and voila! I had a halfway decent fruit scene!