EMAIL: manorton@tcnet.net
NAME: Mike Norton
TOPIC: Summer
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION
RENDERER USED: Blue Moon Rendering Tools
TOOLS USED: Breeze
RENDER TIME: 18 hours
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133 with 32 megs of ram.  Ran in Linux

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

This image is my second entry for the summer compition.  I had recently
installed Linux to
experiment with some of the great image software I have heard about that is only
on UNIX type
machine.  I used Larry Gritz's (he works at Pixar now) Blue Moon Rendering
Tools.  A very cool
RenderMan compliant raytracing and radiosity renderer.

This image is a dock on a lake late, late at night.  The warm breezze blows over
the water
creating little ripples.  The soft lights on the deck just illuminate the deck
enough to enjoy the
view.

This image will probably be best viewed with the light off in the room.  Since I
am going for a
night time scene it will show up better.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

I used Breeze to model the deck.  Breeze has a very nice export to RIB format,
no errors or extra
stuff that might slow the render down.

I then loaded up Linux and edited the RIB file to add the textures and adjust
the lights.  Then I
began the render.  I tried using radiosity at first but because of 11 light
sources it would have
taken months to render.  I am new to RenderMan so I may be able to fix this at a
later time.

I have included the RIB file so you can get a look at how it was made or you can
render it
yourself.