EMAIL: chernega@gte.net NAME: Gary J Chernega TOPIC: Great Engineering Achievements COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Akashi Kaikyo Bridge COUNTRY: USA WEBPAGE: http://home1.gte.net/chernega RENDERER USED: Imagine for Amiga v5.1a TOOLS USED: DeluxePaint VI RENDER TIME: 5 hours 24 minutes HARDWARE USED: Amiga 3000 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The Akashi Kaikyo bridge under construction. This bridge is the world's longest suspension bridge, at 2.43 miles in length. Located along the Kobe-Naruto route in Japan the bridge is scheduled to open April 5, 1998. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The water was created using Imagine's Waves texture. Buildings are a simple filter map created in DeluxePaint and mapped onto a flat surface. Clouds and fog were also filter maps created with DeluxePaint. All remaining elements (bridge surfaces, coastline, boat, bouys) are polygons created in Imagine's modeller. The image was rendered at 4000x3600 resulting in a 13 Meg image that took 5 hours 24 minutes to generate.