TITLE: A higher dimension
NAME: Romain Guillard
COUNTRY: France

EMAIL: rguillard@claranet.fr
WEBPAGE: http://home.fr.clara.net/rguillard/vue2
TOPIC: Imaginary Worlds
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT
JPGFILE: higher_d.jpg
ZIPFILE: higher_d.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Vue d'Esprit 2


TOOLS USED: 

sPatch for modelling
Photoshop 4 for text, JPEG compression and Gamma correction


RENDER TIME: 
    2h 06min 52sec

HARDWARE: Pentium 200, 32Mb RAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

I just imagined a world on a higher dimension from which other people (aliens?
gods?) could control and watch our planet. While we believe that earth is part
of an infinite universe, it is just a little part of their world. Is it our
world or theirs that is imaginary ? Do you think someone else is watching them
?


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Technically, there was nothing very difficult to do in this picture. For objects
I either used primitives available in Vue d'esprit or modeled them with sPatch
and then assembled them inside Vue d'Esprit. Good-looking skies can sometime be
hard to get with some renderers but as Vue d'Esprit is a landscape generator
they were quite easy to do. The texture I used for the earth is from XXXXX,
I've downloaded it some time ago from the SWMA
(http://www.surfthe.net/swma/index.html).