EMAIL: nate@housepixels.com

NAME: Nate Ryan

TOPIC: Decay

COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.

TITLE: Fungus Dance

COUNTRY: United States

WEBPAGE: http://www.housepixels.com

RENDERER USED: Art Of Illusion 1.6

TOOLS USED: Forester/Arboretum

RENDER TIME: 5 hours 15 minutes

HARDWARE USED: Pentium4 2.8 MHz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A tree trunk slowly decaying with the help of several fungi and moss in dappled sunlight.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The trunk and roots were created with Forester's Arboretum tool - a recursive 3D tree generator ( http://www.dartnall.f9.co.uk/forester ).  Some additional modifications to the trunk and roots were done in Art Of Illusion (AOI).  All other modeling was done natively in AOI ( http://www.artofillusion.org ).  All texturing done in AOI.  The trunk texture is from a digital photo I took.  All other textures (including the background) were procedurally created in AOI. I used texture displacement on moss, trunk, and morel caps.  Monte Carlo Global Illumination was enabled.