EMAIL: ddombrow@vt.edu
NAME: Daniel Dombrowsky
TOPIC: Ruins
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Obsolescence
COUNTRY: USA
RENDERER USED: Bryce 3D
RENDER TIME: 1hour 12minutes
HARDWARE: Pentium II 400 

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

	This image is one of my first serious efforts with Bryce.
While there are no buildings or obvius ruined structures in the image,
the image focuses on the ruins left behind in the wake the progression
of civilization. The large ship in the sky is a contrast of the ruins
topic, and my intention was for it to bring out the ruined quality of
the scenery. I hope I have captured these ideas in the image. 


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

	This image is not in my opinion, a technically meritable work.
I had no part in modelling either the ship, car, barrel, girder or tree.
The ship and the car are freely distributed models from Renderosity.com
and 3dcafe.com, respectively. The girder, barrel, and tree are Bryce preset
objects. I created the terrain in the terrain editor, and a water plane was
used for the river. As almost an afterthought I added the things in the far
back left, which is a group of individually rotated cylinders and a rock
shape. All the elements in the scene were rotated, scaled and positioned to
fit the mood and the concept of the image.

	The fog is set at a smoggy brown color, and raised so it just lightly
covered the water. All the sky settings were custom modified till I liked the 
cloudscape and the atmospheric elements I was getting. I then textured all the
elements of the scene. All the textures are Bryce presets that have been modified
and tweaked to my liking (suggestions on how to improve the car texture would be
appreciated). 

In conclusion, I'd like to say a hearty thanks to the administrators of the irtc
for providing this challenge. Also, this being my first irtc submission, I have
to say that whether this image is judged to be an impressive interpretation of 
the ruins topic or merely ruinous in itself, I have thoroughly enjoyed the making
of it, and hope to submit again next time.