EMAIL: thelee@IAEhv.nl
NAME:  B. v. Echteld (The Lee)
Topic: Science Fiction
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: Lightwave3D 4.0
TOOLS USED: Modeler3D 4.0 (for modeling)
RENDER TIME: approx. 5 hours
HARDWARE USED: Amiga4000 (for most modeling), Pentium-166 (rendering)

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

   " Project Epsilon "
   A dark moody building....
   Somewhere an alarm tone sounds, heavy metal doors close....
   Hissing sounds everywhere.....alarmlights light up....
   Vague gasses can be seen swirling everywhere.......

DESCRIPTION HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
        
   Been toying with displacement mapping (a la terminator 2,
   where the "enemy" terminator(forgot his serial number ;-) )
   disquised himself as the floor, and after that smoothly
   "morphs" back into a person....
   Anyway, after some experimenting it evolved more
   into a "star-gate" effect, and I toyed with
   that kind of scenario.....and here we have PROJECT EPSILON..
   (like it so much, I'm planning to get it animated...sometime
   in my life that is :-D )
   I started with a big square with a lot of polygons in it,
   about 40.000...

   Then messed a bit with some imagemap ideas I had, even a
   photo of myself...brrr...no good idea... ;-)
   Finally created the right map to get a good displacement,
   but it took quite some meddling with a lot of individual
   polygons to get the right look...(and a lot of starting from
   scratch...aaahhh...;-) )
   With a lot of time & patience, & testing the proper texture
   for it 100s of times, the object got my "approved" stamp...
   Now to find a scene to put it in.....hmm....basically....
   most scenes I already made didn't have the right "environment"
   for it.....
   So, I build a new environment, nosed in my collection to get
   the proper textures (most are my own, 1 or 2 come from
   Archangel's Pack - 14 (an old freeware pack to liven up
   webpages & textures for rendering)
       
   Then a lot of time went into getting the right lighting &
   camera setting....
                
   And here we are....ready to be submitted for the IRTC, and
   just in time too ;-)