EMAIL: wasior@amwaw.edu.pl
NAME: Rafal Wasiak
TOPIC: Ruins
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: skaruszyna     (comment: its old-polish word... I dont translate it.. :( ... maybe 'shell' ?)
COUNTRY: Poland
WEBPAGE: www.amwaw.edu.pl/~wasior   (comment: it's a half-year old web page... to old..  :)
RENDERER USED: 3dMAX 2.0 - default scanline renderer
TOOLS USED: 3dMAX 2.0 with Metareyes plugin, Photoshop
RENDER TIME: about 6 min
HARDWARE USED: p166, 64MB RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: it is effect of my experiments with the Metareyes plugin..

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

1) shell of the snail is a simply loft... path: modified helix, shape: two attached circles... and (later) Edit Mesh modifier
2) body of the snail and the cement are a meshs created with Metareyes
3) bricks are the cubes, modified with Noise and Boolean modifiers


my english is poor :( - sorry..