TITLE: Augury
NAME: Charles Rousseau
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: rousseauc@bellarmineprep.org
TOPIC: The Future
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: augury.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Bryce 5.0

TOOLS USED: 
    Rhino 2.0

RENDER TIME: 
    17.25 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    PC

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

We see now but through a glass darkly...after watching so many people in my
graphics class doing spaceships and cities and robots and aliens, I knew I had
to go in another direction.  A sphere to be the earth became a crystal ball,
then a book and key were added, an hour glass and the goblet of seer's potion. 
A mirror, doubled to two, then a table, some candles and greenery.  The file
grew to over 250mB and I still managed to get in the cards and the logo, but
had to leave out the lamp and dagger and some other stuff.  There are some
reflection images in the mirror behind the camera which some people say they
can see, others say there is nothing there.  I was looking for effects with
pyramids and eyes and radiant suns, from the table texture to the images
bouncing back and forth between the mirrors.  If I can find a bigger, faster
computer, I want to put the other objects back in the scene, add back the
lights I had to take out and re-render sometime.  As is, it only froze twice
and crashed once.  It was better than I thought it would be as a planet in
space. 

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

All meshes created from scratch in Rhino.  All textures except the pictures on
the cards and book were made with Photopaint and Ultimate FX.  Pictures were
16th-19th century images from the Taschen Encyclopedia of Alchemy. Image was
cropped from a more vertical image and transformed from a .bmp to a compressed
.jpg to meet file size requirements.

