TITLE: Emergency Box
NAME: Brendan "HollyKing" Van Horn
COUNTRY: United States
EMAIL: hollyking@lords.com
WEBPAGE: http://home.gvi.net/~awulf
TOPIC: glass
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: emerbox.jpg
RENDERER USED: Caligari trueSpace 2
TOOLS USED: Paint Shop Pro v4.12
HARDWARE USED: P90 32MB RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

  This my first foray into the world of raytracing.  I got the idea from
  everyone complaining about glass causing such a strain on their system.
  I remembered old Warner Brothers cartoons where an box containing a banana
  peel would "conviently" be present in the forest so Bugs Bunny could trip
  up other characters.  I replaced the banana with a SIMM module to give
  that extra bit of RAM to render a glass filled image.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

  First I created a red metal cube and then hollowed out the insides to
  be the box.  Next came the addition of the cover to hold the plate of
  glass to the box surface.  The lettering was added using the Verdana
  TrueType font through trueSpaces lettering objects.  Finally, I created
  a simple plane and painted it with a procedural wood texture to be the
  paneling the box is hung from.

  I have to admit that the SIMM module wasn't originally mine.  I got it
  from Caligari's support pages where someone had donated it.  The original
  SIMM module was EXTREMELY detailed (3.4MB COB file)!  My poor system
  did not have enough memory to raytrace the image.  I reduced the module
  by rendering the PCB board in one step and using that as a texture map
  around a simple plane in the final image.  Also the lettering on the
  chips in the original was cut out of the plastic container.  Again I
  rendered just the chip faces and used the image as a texture map on the
  final SIMM module.  With the reduced size (only 1.1MB now) I placed the
  SIMM module in the box.

  The last step was to place one light above the box to light it.  Two
  dimmer lights are placed below the box on either side to make the sides
  and bottom of the box visible.

  Well that's pretty much it.  I'll say thank you now for your comments
  because prizes not withstanding my reason for entering is to improve
  my skills.


