Jörg's Playground
© Jörg Meinhardt
1999-05-11

After assigning "materials" to the surfaces of these models, adding virtual lights and other environment information, the PC will calculate a picture. This process is called rendering - or raytracing, if it will actually follow (trace) all the light rays to the different virtual light sources to calculate mirror effects, shadows and alike.

My tools:

Metacreations' Bryce 3D is my choice for doing the final rendering with landscapes, sky and water (all of the below are still generated with Bryce 2).
My poor PC (P133) had to run all day and night - it had to get replaced (PII-300).

Additionally I am using Caligari's Truespace3 for animations and extended 3D modelling - i.e. the rotating 3D Artwork button.

My latest pictures include human figures with poses and animations made with Metacreations' Poser2.

Leisure time at the Glass National Monument

At the sea

Xmas on the sea (Patty's face projected on the spheres)

A bottle just designed from 3D primitives with boolean operations:

Again just 3D primitives with added height maps. Cheers!
- no kidding, this is not a photograph!

With a little help from truespace - an imported object into bryce.
(the sunchair, of course):

And here a combination with the still empty wine glasses
- a little hard to see:

How about a logo for me