EMAIL: u9313187@muss.cis.mcmaster.ca
NAME: Bryan Huo
TOPIC: Time
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: Caligari trueSpace2
TOOLS USED: Paintbrush, 3D Studio, LViewPro, Windows 95
RENDER TIME: 40 minutes
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 120MHz 32MB
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Entitled "Out of Time" depicts a nightly street scene.  With only 2 seconds
before detonation and unable to disarm the bomb, the bomb-squad decides
nothing can be done, and evacuates the area.  In their frenzy, they leave
behind their wirecutters and flashlight.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

This image was created on the computers where I'm working for the summer.  I
rendered an image on my 486DX-33 with 8MB of ram, and took 19 hours.  The 
same image on the computers at work took only 7 minutes!

The truSpace2 scene was ray-traced with 2x antialiasing. All lights were set
to cast ray-traced shadows.  No fog was used.  Background colour was r:0, b:0,
g:0... i.e. black.

The "Police Line Do Not Cross" bitmap was made in Paintbrush, as was the LED
display, using a LED truetype font.  The wires protruding from the plastic 
explosive was modelled in 3D Studio's lofter and shaper, using the twist 
option.  That was the only way I could figure out how to connect wires from 
one area to the other, eventually into a bundle.  The flashlight was modelled
in trueSpace2, and the wirecutters were modelled in 3D Studio 4.  The rest
were modelled in trueSpace2.  My name was added in with LViewPro/32, using
Arial-11pt font.

Stucco.Jpg  : Included with 3D Studio.  Used for the bump map on the curb
Led.Jpg     : Created with Paintbrush.  The 00:00:02 display on the bomb
PlateOx2.Jpg: Included with 3D Studio.  Used for the semi-rusted light post
Police.Jpg  : Created in Paintbrush, converted by LViewPro
Pliers2.3ds : 3D Studio 4 file of the pliers - made with the Loft tool & Shaper
Wires2.3ds  : 3D Studio 4 file of the wires coming from the bomb

Sorry, I'm do not want to include the actual trueSpace2 scene file -- I don't
want it to be public domain.