EMAIL: Msg4sebi@gmail.com NAME: Ionita Sebastian TOPIC: Absence COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: The desert of life COUNTRY: Canada WEBPAGE: Not yet avalible RENDERER USED: 3DSmax scanline renderer TOOLS USED: 3DSmax RENDER TIME: 6m 59s HARDWARE USED: P4 2Ghz, 512 MbRAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The picture represents the birth of life.A planet on which there is no life there is also no purpose.Life gives things a meaning DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The sand is a plane with a noise modifier, the tree i modeled it from a box and then i added particles on the branches that look like leafs. The lightning consist of a skylight which i refined with radiosity.