EMAIL: thelee@IAEhv.nl
NAME:  B. v. Echteld (The Lee)
Topic: Science Fiction
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: Lightwave3D 4.0
TOOLS USED: Modeler3D 4.0 (for modeling)
RENDER TIME: approx. 6 hours
HARDWARE USED: Amiga4000 (for some modeling)
               Pentium-166 (modeling & rendering)

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

   " Imperial Escort - at the dAli nebula "
   The shuttle leaves the star destroyer for a special mission..
   Outside the docking bay, an escort is waiting.....
   The passenger, aparently an important person (could it be
   Darth Vader? or perhaps even the emperor himself?), can see
   the nebula swirl in space, as if it was a living entity...
   Silently the passenger feels the connection between himself,
   the nebula and the cosmic current....   

DESCRIPTION HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
        
   Plasma's anyone? ;-)

   Basically the background objects(yes, the nebula consists of 2
   objects, not backgroundpictures), are made of a lot of polygons
   (sorry forgot how many), on wich I carefully molded a custom
   plasma, wich I adjusted a bit for use as a displacement map.
   The plasma was generated on a fractal program on the amiga,
   after wich I darkened, blurred, smudged the image, and
   altered the colors to my liking...
   Saved a greyscale copy(for displacement & transparency
   mapping etc.) And a full color one, as colormap etc.

   So, now I multiple real "cloud" (as in not flat) objects, wich
   I can even have a fighter fly through....

   
   The Star Wars objects are custom adaptations of the objects
   to be found at the Star Wars modeling Alliance, or
   H. Chang's webpage(http://www.loop.com/~hhc/english/starwars.html)
   Being a mighty big Star Wars fan, I cannot resist building
   my own objects, or improve objects I find on the web...
   I'm still working on them, don't think I'll ever stop ;-)

   After quite some time and experimenting, I finally have a star
   destroyer that doesn't look so "clean" as most objects do,
   it has a rough surface, not smooth as the enterprise...
   (rough is the way I think a star destroyer should look like)

   The Shuttle took also quite some work to get the
   panels on the wings properly done, and I'm now working on getting
   more detail on it...

   What is an Imperial Shuttle(even with the imperial symbol on it)
   doing without an escort? that can't be!
   So I put a nice formation of TIE's around it...
   And here we are.... " Imperial Escort - at the dAli nebula " ;-)

   So, basically I put together this scene, because I couldn't resist
   sending Star Wars stuff to the competition... ;-)