EMAIL: spifferific@onebox.com NAME: Jeremy Bengtson TOPIC: Spirit of Asia COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT TITLE: Bonsai COUNTRY: U.S.A TOOLS USED: Blender, GIMP 1.2 RENDERER USED: Blender Unified Render RENDER TIME: 1 min HARDWARE USED: Compaq Presario, 700 Mhz AMD Duron w/MMX & 3DNOW, 370 MB RAM, and 8MB NVIDIA VANTA LT. IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I just can't figure out what is it that I like best about Asia.Could it be the Language, in its beauty and its grace? Could it be its decorative motifs? Could it be its attempts to capture the beauty of nature in a smaller yet none the less precise way? Argh, I can't seem to put my finger on it, its like the thing I'm trying to explain is be behind a screen and that I can see it but just its shadow.... maybe you could give me some input on what ever it is. DISCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: To make this Picture I held fast to the Blenderese maxim If you can't do it fake it. The girl behind the screen was fully colord but It seems that Blender can't do transparent to shadows yet opaque (i.e. like really thin curtians) so I cheated, only the foot at the bottom is colored. Every thing else is standard things lke extrusion, point editing, ect.