TITLE: The Grid
NAME: Michael Scholz
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: info@michaelscholz.de
WEBPAGE: http://www.michaelscholz.de
TOPIC: The City
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: thegrid.jpg
ZIPFILE: thegrid.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    3DStudioMax2.5

TOOLS USED: 
    Photoshop5.5 for copyright text and jpg-file

RENDER TIME: 
    9 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    Dual PII400, 256MB Ram


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


The Grid is city of the future. This megastructure floats in space
and has its own artificial sun. It consists of three actual grids:
the construction mesh, which holds the container-houses, an infra-
structure grid which contains energy-, water- and waste-pipes, and
a transportation grid which functions as public streets. The image
shows a container-housing unit being hovered into an empty gridlot
by a thruster-satelite. Imagine this is your mobile home which can
be moved through space and fit onto the grid wherever you want to.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Nearly everything is made out of simple cubes, the grid structures
being rendered with wire-materials. I did the sun with a light-red
volume omni which also serves as node source for the flare effect,
and a combustion apparatus makes the sun's flames. Another blueish
volume light with noise plus the renderers starfield thingy in the
background, glow for the satelite: I spent more time on atmosphere
and lighting than on the actual modeling. You can see an early pic
with only the lights and a first, rough grid cube in the zip-file.

My intention was to create a colorful sci-fi city pic by combining
an old cityplaning concept, the grid, with futuristic ideas and fx.

