EMAIL: badger@vr-mall.com
NAME: Douglas N. Barnhart
TOPIC: Summer
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: trueSpace 2.0
TOOLS USED: trueSpace only
RENDER TIME: 13 minutes
HARDWARE USED: 133 MHz Pentium w/32 megs of RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: One of the summer dangers of ray tracing, is when your
models
become too real.  Sharks are a common danger on beaches, but don't feel too
safe
when you are in front of your computer.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

All of the objects used in this image are public domain models.  Most of them
are
from the Avalon site.  I do a lot of model creating, but just didn't have time
for
this image.

The layout of objects required at least one light to be put under the shade of
the
lamp.  Instead I used two, slightly offset to create a more interesting shadow
pattern.
One of the lights is yellow to create the warmth, and the other is blue to give
a cold
edge to the shadows.

having two lights behind the shark left too much of the image in the dark, so I
placed
a bright white light high off to the right to bring out the reflectivity of the
chrome
hammerhead shark.

The texture of the back walls is the cork texture from a specially created
texture
collection.  The other textures are all part of the standard simple texture
collection
of trueSpace.