TITLE: Skilled Hallucination NAME: Noah Hornberger COUNTRY: USAPersonal WEBPAGE: http://ww.provide.net/~hornberger EMAIL: hornberger@provide.net TOPIC: Unbelievable COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: skilled.jpg ZIPFILE: skilled.zip RENDERER USED: Ray Dream Studio 5.2 Ray Tracer TOOLS USED: Ray Dream Extensions SuperMesh, Quadrix, VisualLight 3D Aura, Textures: Picture Publisher8 RENDER TIME: 55 Minutes HARDWARE USED: Pentium II, 128 MB RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: "Skilled Hallucination" is a perfect example of something unbelievable. The scene consists of related unbelievable objects that are arranged to form a nice composition. The most obvious and probably the first object that you will see is the digital clock. The current time is 12:66 . . . a time that will never exist. The clock is tilting on a card castle and has a blue glass ball balanced on top. On the bookshelf there are 4 books with magical titles. The shelf is only supported on one side. On the desktop is a warped checkerboard that has a sand dune formation. A palm tree is growing on the "checked island" on the desk. Half of the image is lit with warm colored light wile the other half is cold to create a dialog with the viewer. Over, all the composition is nice (my main challenge). DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: First I started with the Desk. The shelves and tabletop are made from Quadrix cubes to give them soft edges unlike the hard-edged fake looking cube primitive. I hate it when I see perfect edges on computer art. Then I made the card castle by scanning some cards and applying the textures to a flat rectangle model. The clock texture took me about an hour to draw in Picture Publisher8, it is applied to another Quadrix model. I used the Supermesh extension to create the warped checkerboard. The books are Quadrix cubes with title textures. I found the palm tree on the Ray Dream 5 CD. The lighting took the better part of my time. I went through about 10 different lighting arrangements before I found a pleasing one. After about a month's work it was ready to render. I have included my source file if you want to take a look.