Artworx CD [Amiga]/Artworx CD - Amiga Version (Weird Science) (1995).iso/raytrace_ham/punk.txt

Text File | 1991-04-26 | 2KB | 34 lines

This is a simple scene rendered with scanline in Imagine. The
"punk" is a friend of mine, who digitized himself with Digiview.
I wanted to make a quick scene to test my brick wall and sidewalk
brushmaps, so I made this scene. I built a lamppost and a mailbox
in the object editor and scaled up a bucket to trashcan sizes. The
window is really a picture frame with a  ledge covering up the
bottom wood slat.

The graffiti was done in DeluxePaint III. Both the graffiti and the
punk image are "frontdrops"- they are not brushmaps on the wall, but
objects in their own right. I did this so I could just use the same
brick wall again for the second story. I digitized the US Mail logo
from a stamp using Digiview.  I used a tape measure on a real
mailbox to get the proportions correct. The "Evan Reidell" name was
written using a big font (about 100 pixels high) in DPaint, then
converted to a 3D extrusion using Imagine. The ledge and curb use
roughness to get a granular look- acceptable for a single scene, but
not for animation.

Object creation took about 3 hours, scene layout was only about an
hour. This is a SCANLINE rendering. Raytracing would add shadows
and probably would make the scene look a bit sharper. Render time
on a 25Mhz A3000 was just over nine minutes.

The repeating brushmaps I created are clearly shown in this scene-
I  probably should have zoomed in closer to show off details, since
you can look at them VERY closely without loss.

-Steve

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Steve Worley                                [e-mail]
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