L A N D S C A P E
This virtual landscape, including the sky, was created using VistaPro,
a DOS program which was given away on a magazine CD. Although quite ancient
in computer terms (i.e 2 or 3 years old) it is capable of generating quite
realistic landscapes and can generate animated fly-overs.
C A T
A digitised frame from a Hi8 video of a neighbour's cat. Several different
computer treaments of this frame were made. In this case, only a small central section of the
Hi8 frame was used . The software used to process the image was Spacetech's Photodesk.
3 D C O N S T R U C T I O N
Generated with a rendering program called Visual Reality. It doesn't support true ray-tracing
but, as this picture shows, it makes a reasonable job of handling reflections and shadows. It
can also render transparency but not refraction.