TITLE: A different kind of shopping NAME: Jesse Higginson COUNTRY: Australia EMAIL: jesseh@softhome.net WEBPAGE: n/a TOPIC: Fantasy COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: jhcarpet.jpg RENDERER USED: 3ds max 4 TOOLS USED: none RENDER TIME: About 25 seconds HARDWARE USED: Pentium III 733 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A wizard's staff has just been down to the shop (it's probably a safe guess it wasn't Woolworths) to fetch some Eye of Newt and is returning on the magic carpet. This is an embarassingly simple image and I think my chances of winning a mention are remote at best, but I don't really have the spare time to do a better one and this one was a little bit creative... DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The sky is an included texture applied as an environment map. The box is just a box with a colour applied. The staff head is a sphere with another included texture applied and the staff body is a cylinder with a noise modifier. The legs are cylinders with quarter-sphere joints and the feet are scaled spheres. The arms are cylinders with bone systems applied and then manipulated. The carpet is a box with a photo of a rug I found and the lighting is a single ray-traced omni-directional light... wow, now that I've explained it I'm amazed how simple this image is...