EMAIL: 0ffield1@airmail.net NAME: D.B. Offield TOPIC: Old Technology COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Steam COUNTRY: USA WEBPAGE: - RENDERER USED: Cinema 4d TOOLS USED: PhotoShop 4, Rhino 3d, Cinema 4d RENDER TIME: about 10 min. HARDWARE USED: PIII 500mz. IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Steam engines, a technology that hit “The end of the line”. This is a portrait of such an engine. The setting is the western desert, where rust is black, moisture absent, and the atmosphere is thin. The image could be from a vintage black and white wet-plate camera that barely registers blue, and the print has been hand tinted. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Rhino 3d for the engine and heightfields of near ground and background. Cinema 4d procedural maps for the distant mountains and sky, bitmap for dirt and engine rust. The weeds and sparrows were models obtained from the web.