CS 248 Spring 1995 Rendering Competition

The original stills (after JPEG compression) can be retrieved by clicking on the corresponding thumbnail.

Arturo Crespo

Arturo's entry comprised two images of a vase, textured using Ken Perlin's marble solid texture. The first still took about 3 minutes to render with 3 by 3 antialiasing. It employs two lights to achieve realism:

• The scene is illuminated from the bottom with a dark blue directional light.
• The base itself is illuminated by a point light colored a mild red.

In this second image, rendered in 42 seconds without antialiasing, the base on which the vase is resting is textured with a granite texture designed by Arturo himself. The scene is illuminated by three lights:

• A dark blue light shines from the bottom, allowing us to see a more realistic flashlight and base.
• There are two point lights exactly at the "bulb" of the flashlight. The first one is a red light, which gives a warm feel to the vase; the second one is white, which causes the flashlight to look like it's emitting light.