TITLE: Weird Tree NAME: Tuomas Ojamies COUNTRY: Finland EMAIL: ojamies@cs.helsinki.fi WEBPAGE: www.helsinki.fi/~ojamies/ TOPIC: The Wilderness COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. RENDERER USED: POV-Ray TOOLS USED: Rhinoceross RENDER TIME: ~20 min HARDWARE USED: Pentium III 450 Mhz 256 MB IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Deep inside jungle, where air is filled with moisture and strong odors. Traveler sees weird tree, dead and somehow out of place. Beautifull flowers glow and bird singing so sadly is somewhere near. Feels like everything were waiting for something. Is someone watching? Is something wrong? There is story behind this scene - but I don't tell it to you. This image is deticated to Dieffenbachia at my office that has suffered great deal during last few weeks. It has lost half of its leaves but it is now starting to feel better. I hope it gets well. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Lightning and media are in wery important role in this scene. Light comes from three sources. Yellow/orange point-light that doesn't interact with media, yellow spot that does and green global ambient. Athmosperic media is important to crerate the glow that is the most important detail in image (IMHO) and more importantly to blur and weaken bushes at background. This looks awfull without media. Treetextures are all close to solid pigment connected with brick-based normal. Brick proved to be wery handy mo make that outer layer of trees - what is it, don't have dictionary at hand? Well look at the closest tree and be amazed what simple brick with some turbulence can do. The tree itself is allmost straight cylinder. Finally I will thank cincerly all those who commented my prev entry and thus helping me to make this one. This is the best image I have (yet) done and it would have never happened without your criticism. I hope you care to judge my entries in future allso.