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.
JPGFILE: gearclok.jpg
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!

