TITLE: Columbus Dream
NAME: Alessandro Vannini
COUNTRY: Italy
EMAIL: a.vannini@mclink.it
WEBPAGE: http://www.mclink.it/personal/MC7872/graphics/index.html
TOPIC: Sea
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: columbus.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Bryce 3D 4.0

TOOLS USED: 
    none

RENDER TIME: 
    15 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium II @ 500 MHz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

A new sea to ride, a new starry night to follow, beneath skies never seen
before... 
The dream of an explorator, a never ending ride across seas.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Picture entirely made with Bryce 3D 4.0, using a true deep-sky image as sky
background (the famous "Horsehead Nebula", within the Orion Constellation), and
an actual shot of Mars taken by the NASA's Mars Global Observer probe. Galleon
modelled with Lightwave 3D (the galleon available with the original
distribution of the program is completely wrong in proportions, and very very
poor in details). The sea surface is a complex structure obtained by mixing
several fractal surfaces in order to reproduce the high detailed sea structure,
with many different frequency wavelenghts. The same for the background
mountains, made using the Bryce's terrain editor using a quick and simple
fractal base. This picture was slightly inspired by the song "Columbus", by the
astounding voice of Mary Black; try to listen at her songs, sometimes: they can
turn good your day... :-)

