TITLE: Enduring Freedom
NAME: Chris Bianchi
COUNTRY: United States of America
EMAIL: chrisbianchi@earthlink.net
WEBPAGE: http://www.strangesightings.com
TOPIC: Desert
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: iraq.jpg
ZIPFILE: iraq.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Corel Bryce 5

TOOLS USED: 
    Corel Bryce 5

RENDER TIME: 
    25 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 4 HT

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


It's been awhile since submitting (I have a new daughter!), but the topic
conjured thoughts in my head about the war in Iraq.  Considering that the
entire country is practically desert, and now a political wasteland as
well, the subject seemed to fit just fine.

Overall, an M-1 tank is sitting in the desert while an oil fire rages in
the distance.  Two F-177A Stealth fighters touch their waypoints overhead.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The M-1 tank and the F-177As are standard primitive models that I'm sure
everyone is familiar with.  The ground is a plain with some random terrain
objects on the surface.  The oil fire was the real new one for me.  The
distance doesn't do the realism justice on this one!  I was quite proud
of how it looked, and it managed to retain some of that luster even at the
great distance form the POV that it is.  It is, essentially, a textured
volumetric sphere stretched vertically.  In the center is a shrunken, yet
high intensity, spherical light source.  The "smoke" is actually random
rock objects with a volumetric black smoke texture applied.