TITLE: Leaves
NAME: Georg Buol
COUNTRY: Austria
EMAIL: georg.buol@computerhaus.at
WEBPAGE: -
TOPIC: Flight
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: leaves.jpg
RENDERER USED: 3DS 4.0
TOOLS USED: Vistapro, Photoshop 3.0, Jumble.pxp
RENDER TIME: about 10 min
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
Image depicts leaves drifting through the air in the shape of a giant bird 
over a mountainous landscape

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
I first made the background image by darkening an image (Sunset90.jpg, 
shiped with 3DS) with Photoshop. Then I used it as a background for the 
mountainscape I generated in Vistapro with the Fractalize Option. I saved 
the picture to be used as a background as a .tga. Next I created about 1300 
leaf meshes and arranged them in a vague birdlike shape (<110000 faces). 
Then I used the .pxp routine Jumble on the meshes to produce the kind of 
feathered appearance in the final picture. When finally rendering the image 
I used two lights, one spotlight which lightens the leafes from behind and 
one Omidirectional light which was placed some distance behind the
camera (without this light the leaves would have been to dark to be seen).  
I decided not to include source files, because they are far to big (the 
mesh file is alone is about 2.2 meg)

