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TITLE: Heroic Flight Past Danger
NAME: Raymond A. Salvatore
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: bonsalva@bellsouth.net
TOPIC: History
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: rasballo.jpg
RENDERER USED:
Raydream Studio 5 raytracer
TOOLS USED:
Raydream Studio 5 , Micrografix Picture Publisher, Adobe Illustrator
RENDER TIME:
30 minutes
HARDWARE USED:
PENTIUM 233 MMX WITH 64 MEG SDRAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
On March 20, 1999 at 9 hours 54 minutes GMT, the crew
of the balloon, Orbiter 3, became the first in history to circumnavigate
the globe with a non-stop, non-refueled flight. It lasted 19 days
1 hour and 49 minutes. I was working on a "Nautilus crossing the North
Pole" kind of picture when I heard about the balloonists. So I changed
my subject in honor of Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
I created the main balloon in
the free-form modeling area using circular cross-sections. The whole balloon
is there, but I would lose detail if I backed the camera out, so I
chose to focus on the gondola, which was made using csg objects over
and over again. The propane tanks are free-forms that were lathed.
The solar-cell kite is mainly a csg object. I used Four Elements for
the sky and flame on the propane burner. The mountains were also made
in Four Elements. I purposely tilted the camera to see the sky as
the two heroes would have seen it traveling in the jet stream.