File: mc_ribs.jpg
Artist: Mike Clifton (clifton@cse.ucsc.edu)
Date Completed: April 19, 1995
Program Used: My own modeling/rendering/animation program, Mechanisto.
Rendering Time: Around 10 minutes
Comments:

Well, each pair of ribs in this picture is a single sphere.
My modeling program lets you deform objects in all kinds of ways,
so I took a sphere, stretched it, tapered the ends, bent it into
a horseshoe sort of shape, and applied some noise to make it not
computer-perfect smooth. The vertebrae are cylinders that have also
had various deformations applied. The bone in the background was made
out of a few blobs and the ground is a height field.
The textures are all procedural shaders in my renderer.