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!