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May 1998 - Illusions of Light

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1st Place
    Entry #01
    Filename: The_sketch.jpg
    Created by: Taron
    E-Mail: taron@taron.de
    Web-Site: http://www.taron.de

    Artist's Comments
    "The Sketch" 
    
    Meaning:
     What defines the depth and what takes it away again? 
     Escher often left the plane ground by his mathematical 
     way to create illustrations. But it's also really funny 
     to do exactly the left way: creating something organic, 
     which is ment to be rendered by purest maths, and completing 
     it by drawing a completely free illustration as a TEXTURE 
     without any calculation, to let be rendered together...that's 
     nearly the opposite of what Escher did, but it comes out in a 
     quite similar way...=} ...even if it is not that amazing... =I
     
     Another funny thing...this time again...is that I didn't 
     even touch it with Photoshop after it had been rendered. 
     This is Lightwaves clear and unretouched result. The drawing 
     is a frontprojection image, which I had drawn with Photoshop...
     all together tooks almost a whole Friday, and the most 
     complicated thing had been the lighting. I attempted to let 
     the drawn parts be identifiable, so I had to find a way to 
     show the beginning of the plane ground by taking care for a 
     well enough appeariance...it's really been not too easy to 
     me, so I'm still not too sure, but it's been a pleasure at 
     all, so I don't regret anything...=)
    





2nd Place
    Entry #07
    Filename: EschersWorld.jpg
    Created by: Scott Cameron
    E-Mail: scameron@wpcusrgrp.org
    Web-Site:

    Artist's Comments
    "Escher's World"
    
    I have always had a fascination with the works of 
    M. C. Escher so decided to reproduce his sketch called 
    "Relativity".  I am a hobbyist still learning so this 
    scene took about 3 weeks to set up working part-time 
    in the evenings.  
    
    All work is done in Lightwave on a basic Pentium 100 
    system with 64mg of RAM.  This image took about an hour 
    to render, uses 22 Lights (some of them negative lights), 
    19 image maps and 67 objects.
    
    Many thanks to Dan Ablan for his "casual guy" model off 
    the CD from his book "Inside Lightwave 3D".  I have also 
    placed several Lightwave Newtek objects, from the program 
    CD, within the scene.  Can you find them?  There are 19 
    different Newtek objects in this scene (some objects are 
    used more than once but are only counted as one object - 
    some are tricky, some aren't).  There are also a further 
    two bonus objects in this scene that are not clearly seen 
    because they are so small.   I will post a list and their
    locations on the Lightwave mailing list after the contest 
    but if you just can't wait please feel free to contact me 
    at scameron@wpcusrgrp.org.
    





Third Place

    Entry #04
    Filename: HourGlass4.jpg
    Created by: Peter Bowmar
    E-Mail: bpj1@np.ac.sg
    Web-Site:

    Artist's Comments
    "In Our Darkest Hour"
    
    Created With: Lightwave 5.6, WinImages F/X 4 (texture 
                  maps and whatnot).
    
    Well, I intended to blow this off in 5 or 6 hours, but 
    the 10-15 minute preview renders killed that idea. 
    
    The final frame has about 600,000 polys, full tracing 
    (and I actually needed all 16 raytrace recursion levels!) 
    and takes about 2 hours at 800x600 on a piddly 200mhz 
    Pentium.  I was thinking of looking at some Escher, but 
    I figured there would already be a lot of that. Look 
    closely, there are some subtle things in there...
    







Honorable Mentions
Here are the other images entered into the May 1998 contest:



Entry #02
Filename: Mommy.p.jpg
Created by: Roger Crouse



Entry #03
Filename: cheekyc.jpg
Created by: Kevin Phillips



Entry #05
Filename: dali2.jpg
Created by: Stacy Helfrich



Entry #06
Filename: DOUBLE.jpg
Created by: Peter Stallo



Entry #08
Filename: wtrfall1.jpg
Created by: Jon Mandigo





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