Email: tmcdonou@bucksnet.bciu.k12.pa.us
Name: Thomas McDonough
Topic: Time
Copyright: I submit to the standard raytracing competition copyright.
Renderer Used: KPT Bryce 1.0 for the backdrop and Specular Infini-D 2.6 for the final image.
Tools: Ktp Bryce,Infini-D, scanner, Adobe photoshop for file conversion.
Render Time: 3.2 hours combined for backdrop and final image.
Hardware: Macintosh 660 AV accelerated to 66mHz.
Image Description: A hour glass that contains a portion of a DNA molecule flies over a sea that contains images of increasingly complex organisms. The landforms in the background show the changes in the earth's geology over the same time periods.
Description of how this image was created:  This image was put together in two parts. First the backdrop was created with KTP Bryce 1.0 an older Mac program that is great for making landforms but rather difficult to make other things. The finished image was saved and used as a background for Infini-D the final modeler and raytracer. The Hour glass was made from four different lathe objects. The inner part of the glass was mapped with an image of a DNA molecule I created on a chemistry program several years ago. The ocean was created with Infini-D with two wave forms and a frequency of 1 wave per second (when used in an animation). The images of the primitive organism, cell, fish, iguana and person were scanned then mapped to transparent planes to render shadows and reflections. I'm working with a three year old machine which is very slow but I think the image turned out quite well. I thought it might be good for this area to get some Mac representation.