EMAIL: white@rational.com NAME: Brian White TOPIC: contrast COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Winter Sunrise COUNTRY: USA WEBPAGE: RENDERER USED:Bryce4 TOOLS USED:Bryce4, Tree Druid, Paint RENDER TIME: 2hrs HARDWARE USED: PII - 256MB IMAGE DESCRIPTION: What a great topic! My first thought when I read the new topic and what I finally settled on was Ansel Adams. His black and white photography sums up contrast for me. The trick was which one to try to duplicate. I chose a picture titled "Winter Sunrise" taken in the Sierra Nevadas from Lone Pine, California in 1944. The original is on the cover of a 2001 Ansel Adams desk calendar. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: There are 14 terrains in this image. One updside down is used to boolean out the lake from another one with a water plane strategically placed underneath. The trees are all one model generated in Tree Druid, scaled, duplicated, and textured in Bryce. The grasses and horse were hand drawn in pain and then mapped to a single polygon with an alpha mask for transparency. The real trick in this one was getting the lighting and textures all to work out in black and white and still acheive the contrast and detail of the original. I really needed another 2 months to fully complete this image, but I'm pretty happy with the result.