4D Solutions

(Stephen Bray, Rob Klein)

4dsol@unibase.unibase.com

Quail Ridge Golf and Country Club Kelowna British Columbia commissioned by Quail Ridge Country Club, Kelowna, British Columbia Architect: Ben Kelley, Regina, Saskatchewan

Final rendered image was 2048x1366

Most of the Scene was modelled in Autocad and exported as DXF files then converted to Imagine files with Accutrans 3D by Micromouse Productions. Each layer was set as a separate object.

The model was rendered with a backdrop photo of the actual site location. The refection of the club in the water was a major problem and consumed many man hours trying to solve. It was finally resolved by rendering the scene against a black backdrop then scooping out the image into a paint program, flipping it upside down, using a horizontal blur to achieve a ripple effect, then pasting it into the color backdrop image. A prieviously rendered image was used as a guide for location. The flipped image was also shrunk in the vertical direction to achieve the foreshortened effect. All people were scanned photos applied to planes with filter masks. The final image was used as the centerpiece image in a large promotional insert that was distributed in most major newspapers in Canada (approx 1 million copies nationwide).

Image was rendered on an Amiga A3000 with 18Mb of Ram; the actual final rendering only took about 2 hours.