EMAIL: libelle@webbwerks.com
NAME: Samuel J. Goldstein
TOPIC: Summer
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: Strata StudioPro/Blitz 1.75+ Raytracer
TOOLS USED: Strata StudioPro/Blitz 1.75+ Modeller
RENDER TIME: 00:34:38
HARDWARE USED: PowerMac 8500/120 with 48M RAM, 200M Virtual RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

The Ice-cream bowl was originally going to be part of the fountain in one
of my other submissions... Wandering in when an early rendering with terrible
lighting was half-done, I saw only the silhouette of the bowl. It looked like
a flying saucer. So, connecting the concept of Summer, Flying Saucers, and
Box Office Smashes, I knew exactly what it had to be.

Yes, coming from outer space, speeding towards the innocents (seemingly a
nice, cool refreshment), the Alien Invaders fly in, ready to clog arteries
and cause obesity among defenseless humans!

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
The bowls were created with a simple one-axis lathing action.

The Ice-cream clumps were created using meta-balls, which were then
hand-tuned using Strata's Spline editor.

The maraschino cherries are spheres that were edited in the Spline
editor, and their stems were skinned from a series of seven polygons.

The interesting part of the image is the textures (or should be). The Ice-
cream texture was created in Photoshop after several unsuccessful attempts
to scan scoops of real Ice cream. I guess I need one of those "cold scan"
tubes for my scanner to prevent excess melting. Well, actually, I did try
scanning some Ice Cream coupon pictures, but it turned out that I got better
results by thinking about what the texture should be like and drawing it
in Photoshop.

Likewise, the fudge texture has lots of (probably invisible) swirls on the
ambient mapping and spotty variation on the reflectivity mapping.

Some of the textures are NOT original:
- the background Sky texture comes with Strata.
- the black & white tile texture (on the bowls) is a modified version of
  a texture that comes with Strata.

I'd be happy to share the model file with anyone who requests it.
___Samuel___