EMAIL: thechip8@yahoo.com
NAME: Chip Widmer
TOPIC: Sea
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Sunken Discovery
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: None yet
RENDERER USED: RayDream Studio 5.5
TOOLS USED: Adobe Photoshop, Terrain Maker
RENDER TIME: 15 min 32 sec
HARDWARE USED: AMD K6 500 Mhz
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
The searchlights of a one-man submarine penetrate the dark waters near a coral reef where a sailboat has sunk. Divers have already been in the area for a while. This image just depicts the beauty of coral reefs.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
I created this image almost totally in Raydream studio. The terrain was made in Terrain Maker and imported into raydream as a heightfield. The seaweed were modeled using both pimitives and meshes. The coral are basically just blobs that have been rotated. Both the sub and the sailboat were also made out of primitives(although I had a tough time with the railing on the sailboat). I really don't know why this image rendered so fast, except nothing in this scene is random. I modeled positioned everything by hand and from scratch, and I rendered it on a pretty fast computer. If you have any questions about how I made this image, please send them to thechip8@yahoo.com.