EMAIL: chrisb@njcc.com
NAME: Chris Blanos
TOPIC: Summer
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: Lightwave 3D 5.0
TOOLS USED: Lightwave Modeler 5.0, VistaPro 3.0
RENDER TIME: 27 minutes, 12 seconds
HARDWARE USED: Pentium-120

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

A view of a sunrise along the coast of Maine on an August morning. The 
fairly calm Atlantic glistens in the early morning sun, while a 
sightseeing plane gets an early start on the day. 


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The ocean is simply a crumple texture bump mapped onto a on a dark plane.
The most difficult part was getting the reflectivity and color settings
just right so that the surface actually looked like water and not a big
piece of aluminum foil. I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out.

The rocky cliff-like coastline started life as a VistaPro DEM, which I 
converted over to Lightwave format. After a lot of tweaking in Modeler, 
I made extensive use of Lightwave's unlimited texture layering to get a
nice craggy, rough surface. There are about 9 different layers of bump,
diffusion and color textures on there.

The sky? Simple! Fractal noise mapped onto a really large flattened cone.
Ya gotta love fractal noise.

The airplane is a stock Lightwave object. Can't take credit for that one.
I motion blurred the plane (from within Lightwave, of course) to add a
bit more realism to the scene. By the way, this looks REAL nice when
animated.

The lighthouse, however, was modeled by me. Despite it's small size in the 
final image, it is actually quite detailed. With a tad more texturing, it
will probably become the main subject of another image.