TITLE: A different kind of shopping
NAME: Jesse Higginson
COUNTRY: Australia
EMAIL: jesseh@softhome.net
WEBPAGE: n/a
TOPIC: Fantasy
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: jhcarpet.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    3ds max 4

TOOLS USED: 
    none

RENDER TIME: 
    About 25 seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium III 733

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

A wizard's staff has just been down to the shop (it's probably a safe guess it
wasn't Woolworths) to fetch some Eye of Newt and is returning on the magic
carpet. This is an embarassingly simple image and I think my chances of winning
a mention are remote at best, but I don't really have the spare time to do a
better one and this one was a little bit creative...

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The sky is an included texture applied as an environment map. The box is just a
box with a colour applied. The staff head is a sphere with another included
texture applied and the staff body is a cylinder with a noise modifier. The
legs are cylinders with quarter-sphere joints and the feet are scaled spheres.
The arms are cylinders with bone systems applied and then manipulated. The
carpet is a box with a photo of a rug I found and the lighting is a single
ray-traced omni-directional light... wow, now that I've explained it I'm amazed
how simple this image is...

