TITLE: Gear Clock NAME: Jason Knight COUNTRY: United States EMAIL: Knight-Graphics@earthlink.net WEBPAGE: http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?ByArtist=Yes&Artist=jsgknight TOPIC: Great Inventions COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. RENDERER USED: Bryce5 TOOLS USED: Corel PhotoPaint, Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Pro RENDER TIME: 2 Days IMAGE DESCRIPTION: On October 24th, 1876 Seth E. Thomas patented a mechanical wind-up alarm clock that changed the world forever. At first they hailed him a genus… but as time went on they grew to despise his great invention. What started as a love affair with the alarm clock soon grew to hate, as people everywhere were rudely awakened from their slumber by bells and buzzers. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The gears, frame and clock hands were all created as grayscale images in Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Pro. The grayscale images were then imported into Bryce5 and added to a terrain object as its elevation (or height). For example: the bolt looking things on the front of the clock would be light gray (higher) and the circle frame that the bolts are attached to would be dark gray (lower), the bolts and the circle frame are all one terrain object. Each object was then trimmed and smoothed using the terrain editor in Bryce5. Placing the objects in the scene was particularly difficult because terrain objects only show as boxes in Bryce5, making it very complicated to position the center of a gear in line with others. Once the modeling and placement was complete, I went to work on texture and bump map painting using Corel PhotoPaint. Textures and bump maps were then imported into Bryce5 and adjusted appropriately. The background was added as a very large cube object with a rough texture applied to it, since its blurry. The blur effect was created using the “Depth of Field” render option in Bryce5. The cameras “Focal Point” was set to the middle of the front gear, and the “Lens Radius” was set at .30. This allows the majority of the clock to be in focus, while other areas are blurry. The image was rendered at poster size, so it had to be scaled down. The signature, title, and text were added in Corel PhotoPaint. So the judges don’t critique my mistakes too much, I wanted to point out a few of them: The time is wrong (its 2 min past 3:50?); None of the gears are connected or touching in any way; and the gears in the background appear to be two dimensional for some reason. Thanks for viewing and reading!