TITLE: Worlds in the Sand
NAME: James Bickford
COUNTRY: United States of America
EMAIL: onefastjb@aol.com
TOPIC: Worlds Within Worlds
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: tobeused.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Bryce 5

TOOLS USED: 
    Rhinoceros

RENDER TIME: 
    30 min.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

The image is of a sandcastle on the beach of the universe.  The stars stretch
out in to the unimaginable depths of infinity seemingly dwarfing the castle.  A
closer inspection of the picture yields that the castle on this beach is not
the centerpiece of the image, it is instead a measurment in which we define the
infinity of our own infinity paying particular to our own planet, Earth,
contained inside a glass marble.  This marble is placed as if by an afterthough
in the immense infinity that makes up our world.  The world as we know it is
contained inside a marble that is littered mishappenly on a forlorn beach.  The
infinity builds in the heavens above the screen and is also dwarfed by the weed
grass on the edge of the cameras vision.  Our world as we know it is contained
inside the larger world of infinity and that is only comparable to the the gift
of our imagination.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

I created this in several stages.  I started by creating the sand castle in
Rhinoceros.  I created the entire object as one mesh, don't laugh, because I
wanted to preserve my saves, I have the demo version.  I then transfered this
to Bryce 5 where I created my scene and selected texture maps for my objects. 
I decided upon a moonless starry night.  With the cool yet warm feeling of the
tropics, accented by the palm trees in the back center.  I finally mapped a
picture of the earth onto a sphere and placed it inside another glass one. 
Then I added the weed grass on the edge of the camera view to brake up the
image.  This also resulted in casting a unique shadow on the beach surface and
the glass sphere reflects part of the grass.  I added a few rocks to break up
the beach and as my final addition I placed a very small weed in the crook of
the front wall to break up and accent that space.  In conclusion the two
hardest parts of this project was the construction of the giant Rhino castle
and the texture map of the sphere.

