EMAIL: z3a12@ttacs3.ttu.edu
NAME: Jeremy C. Witt
TOPIC: Science Fiction
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
NOTE:      I did not include the source because I had a bunch of defunct files 
           which I didn't have time to sort through (plus it totalled about
2.6MEG). 
           if anyone really wants any of my objects or stuff, just e-mail me,
and
           I'll send it to you (or something).
RENDERER USED: Lightwave 5.0
TOOLS USED: Paint Shop Pro
RENDER TIME: 2 Hours
HARDWARE USED: Pentium-120 / 40MEG

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

This scene depicts a Tyderium Shuttle (Star Wars) Model which lights LEDs were 
to be added to increase realism. It is kind of difficult to read, but the book
on the desk is a modeling book opened to a chapter on lighting. The model and
book 
are flanked by a Power Supply (Which I really built in my first LAB) and a bread

board with the LED circuit shown in the book.  One note, I ran short on time
this
month, so you may notice that I didn't put wires on the CIRCUIT! oh well, its
magic. :)

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

Modeling:
The Power Supply, Breadboard, Resistor, and LED were all modeled first and with
a simple ruler and a large quantity of patience.  

The Shuttle was constructed for the most part in the same fashion, but I have to

confess that towards the end of this month, I started eyeballing a lot of the 
parts rather than create a perfect reconstruction of the model. The 
model (a real life model) was one I actually built last year, so I was fortunate

to have a good reference to work with.

I Spent the least time on the Book model, which I created in about an hour on
10-31-96
at about 4:00 AM

Textures:
The textures used on the Model incude a greyscale image of a series of
Rectangles, which
was used as a bump map; and an image map that I created in PaintShop to depict
the 
scorch marks. The Wood on the Desk was from a image file of a Wood I found
somewhere.
The Page of the book was created by first laying out the page in word including
the 
LED circuit. Then, I captured the image with Paint Shop and applied it to the
book page.
The texture of the book cover ( which incidentally didn't even get into the
picture) was 
created as orange-peel bump map with a color of maroon.

I worked on this Image on and off for about 1.5 Months.

Jeremy C. Witt