TITLE: Solitude
NAME: Tim Stratton
COUNTRY: Canada
EMAIL: tstratton@sympatico.ca
TOPIC: Night
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: 8_dolphn.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    3DStudio Max

TOOLS USED: 
    PhotoShop

RENDER TIME: 
    4min

HARDWARE USED: 
    PII 300MMX 128MB RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

This was one of the first images that I though of whilst brain storming with
friends of mine.  The final result, which you now see, is exactly as I had
pictured it in my mind.

I realze that the moon may be too big, but this was done as it was the
approperiate size to balance the image.  Some of my friends had pointed this
out to me and my only comment to them was simply; "I like it that way".

I think the Image speaks for itself.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

From top to bottom:

  The Stars:  Photoshop bitmap I created from scratch

  The Moon: Web page that generates images of the moon on any given day.  I
tried for Apr 30th 1998 but that was a cresent moon, so this is what the moon
looked like from Ottawa Ontario on March 12th 1998.  Sorry I lost the web page
that gave me this great picture map.

  The Water:  This is actually a flat box with some trickery on the texture. 
Getting the water just right took about 15hrs of tweaking over a period of
three weeks.

  The Dolphins:  These I stole from www.3dcafe.com in their free mesh section. 
I have had these meshes for quite a while.  I have been working on drawing my
own dolphins sence the onset of this competition though I just couldn't get
them to look correct.  I copped out on the 23rd of April and went with the free
mesh from the web.  I did have to make some 'minor' modifications to the meshes
for the final image.

That's it.  The image is only about 10objects in all.  Very short and simple. 
Please enjoy this as much as I do.