TITLE: Skilled Hallucination
NAME: Noah Hornberger
COUNTRY: USAPersonal WEBPAGE: http://ww.provide.net/~hornberger

EMAIL: hornberger@provide.net
TOPIC: Unbelievable
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: skilled.jpg
ZIPFILE: skilled.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Ray Dream Studio 5.2 Ray Tracer

TOOLS USED: 
    Ray Dream Extensions SuperMesh, Quadrix, VisualLight 3D Aura,
Textures: Picture Publisher8

RENDER TIME: 
    55 Minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium II, 128 MB RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    "Skilled Hallucination" is a perfect example of something
unbelievable.  The scene consists of related unbelievable objects that are
arranged to form a nice composition. The most obvious and probably the first
object that you will see is the digital clock.  The current time is 12:66 . . .
a time that will never exist.  The clock is tilting on a card castle and has a
blue glass ball balanced on top.  On the bookshelf there are 4 books with
magical titles.  The shelf is only supported on one side.  On the desktop is a
warped checkerboard that has a sand dune formation.  A palm tree is growing on
the "checked island" on the desk.  Half of the image is lit with warm colored
light wile the other half is cold to create a dialog with the viewer.  Over,
all the composition is nice (my main challenge).  

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    First I started with the Desk. The
shelves and tabletop are made from Quadrix cubes to give them soft edges unlike
the hard-edged fake looking cube primitive.  I hate it when I see perfect edges
on computer art.  Then I made the card castle by scanning some cards and
applying the textures to a flat rectangle model.  The clock texture took me
about an hour to draw in Picture Publisher8, it is applied to another Quadrix
model.  I used the Supermesh extension to create the warped checkerboard.  The
books are Quadrix cubes with title textures.  I found the palm tree on the Ray
Dream 5 CD.  The lighting took the better part of my time.  I went through
about 10 different lighting arrangements before I found a pleasing one.  After
about a month's work it was ready to render. I have included my source file if
you want to take a look.




