TITLE: Babel No. 1
NAME: James R. Graham
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: jrg@subatomic-satan.net
WEBPAGE: http://subatomic-satan.net
TOPIC: Unbelievable
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: babel1.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    PiXELS 3D 3.0

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HARDWARE USED: 
    Macintosh G3 300MHz, 128MB RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    This work in progress was an attempt to create an old,
run-down environment (space station, city, etc.) where very different alien
races could interact (meaning, where I could have fun creating bizarre
creatures). I plan to expand this into a series of images and to further
develop characters and architectural ideas.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    This was created using a wonderful
program called PiXELS:3D. Since PiXELS is a NURBS-based modeler, it was
relatively easy to mold the central alien's facial features. The alien's face
is made up of a variety separate shapes which were then fused into a seamless
whole using PiXELS' Fusion layer. This image has a mix of fully procedural
textures (both aliens' skins, cloaks, etc.) and image map-based ones (most
walls). The star map is an image of the positions of the stars at the moment of
my birth (down to the minute). The blurriness of the background was achieved at
render-time using PiXELS' depth of field (fStop = 5) and antialiasing set to 4.
I hope you like it.