TITLE: Faust5
NAME: Gerhard Mair
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: gmair@compuserve.com
WEBPAGE: none presentable up to now
TOPIC: The Laboratory
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: gmfaust5.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Bryce4

TOOLS USED: 

          - Rhino for modeling of the bottles, glasses and other glassware
          - Poser4 for the unlucky scientist and the imprisoned homunculus
          - 3DStudio4 (DOS) for the handbook of magic, 
          - Corel Photopoint for conversion of the image from bmp to jpg and  
            the bitmaps with which some of the Bryce4 terrains were created 

RENDER TIME: 
    15 hours 32 seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 166 MMX , 64 MB Memory


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Disappointed by the emptiness of nature and the vanity of technical progress
in the 22th century, Faust5 turns back to the mysteries of alchemy and magic.
His old copy of the handbook of magic, written in a long forgotten language,
points the way to new territories, as it seems.
But something has gone completely wrong. After drinking his first
experimental result, a red potion, mixed from colourfull ingredients, he
faces a dreadfull metamorphosis.
And what is that humanoid creature, imprisoned
in the bowl on the workbench, which was not there moments ago.....


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


the models:
The glassworks seen in the image were modeled using Rhino1, as were the books
and the lamp on the desk. 
Poser4 helped to pose the scientist and the creature in the glasbowl.
These models took most of the time while creating the scene elements
The workbench, the chair and the desk at the window 
and finally the washing device were taken from a
collection of models presented for free use by CyberSite (www.cyper-site.co.uk)
in the 3Dworld magazine, because they seemd to fit perfectly to my idea of
that particular laboratory. 
The other scene elements are made of the
primitives provided by Bryce4. The Library  at the windowed wall and the floor
for example are brycian terrains.  
At the end of the modeling process the source file had grown to more than 38
MB. This made the modeling somewhat tedious, since the computer was mostly
busy with swaping. It is also the reason why no sourcefile was given.

the textures:
All textures are pure brycian 2D- and 3D-textures, taken from the built-in
presets and customized to have the desired properties.

the light:
To create the illumination and light effects five extra light objects besides
the brycian sun were directed to the points of interest.

the rendering:
It took more than 15 hours to render the image, mostly due to the extra
light effects and the many transparent and reflecting objects.  

The image is by no means finished and would need a lot of work, but i will
have to wait for a new, more powerfull computer before continuing.



