TITLE: Fort Sand
NAME: Bruce Johnson
COUNTRY: US
EMAIL: johnson@pharmacy.arizona.edu
TOPIC: Water
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: fortsand.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Strata Vision3D v. 4.0

TOOLS USED: 
    Aldus Superpaint for image maps, Photoshop for final conversion

RENDER TIME: 
    ~5hrs

HARDWARE USED: 
    PowerMac 7200/75 112 Mb memory

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

After defending it's inhabitants from imaginary
foes all day, the seashell cannons of Fort Sand
stand mute before its final adversary,
the afternoon tide.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

My first IRTC image, this was a major learning experience
since it was also my first major project with StrataVision.

The castle is a real simple model, most of the work was
getting the shells to look right (they're done using the sweep
modeler) and wrestling with the sand/water interface.

Too bad the picture's so small, there's lots of detail that
is lost, not to mention hidden...there's sand in the
bucket that I carefully modeled, then decided the bucket 
looked better tilted away...

While the source file for this is waaay too big to post
(~9mb) I can give the shells and other shapes in Strata format 
to anyone who really wishes them...

The November 98 issue of MacAddict, BTW, has the full 
version of StrataVision3D 4.0 in it, for free. A very good
mac modeling and rendering program...