TITLE: Eagle Canyon
NAME: Robert Lee
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: rclee@oklahoma.net
WEBPAGE: None
TOPIC: Epic Proportions
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD
JPGFILE: falls.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POV 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    Little Gray Cells


RENDER TIME: 
    about 6 hrs

HARDWARE USED: 
    1.4 GHz Pentium on Windows XP


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


I wanted to capture the epic scale of the 
American Southwest and pay tribute to the 
making of movie epics.

The American Southwest has proportions 
as big as the all outdoors and many epics
have been made there.  John Houston and John 
Wayne brought many an epic picture to the silver
screen. 


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Thanks to Gilles Tran  for Makesnow and Makegrass.
Thanks to TOM AUST for MakeTree.
Thanks to Kurt Bangert for the waterfalls.

I used this entry to try my hand at isosurfaces and 
slope textures.

The movie camera and chair are simple CSG.  I used 
a bicubic patch for the chair seat and back with
a texture applied via UV mapping.

The birds are also simple CSG as well. Don't look 
at them close up, they look pretty bad.  From a 
distance, the mind fills in the details.