Spiffy Ray-Traced OS/2 Pictures from Random Bozos

All of the inlined images are interlaced GIFs, mostly between 20K and 35K. Most of them have links to larger images (or to zipfiles containing the larger images), all of which worked as of mid-1995. The ones with no links were deleted from Walnut Creek's incoming directory in August 1995 and no longer exist. Unfortunately this includes the `Divine Intervention' and `Warp It Up' images...

Starting off the collection is an amusing one by Matthew Glenn ``Gargoyle'' Beall (gargoyle@ginch.dial.umd.edu). The humor is a little tricky to read in the small version, and since the large one is no longer available, here's the text: ``...let us therefore cast of the works of darkness...and let us put on the armour of light.''. This was made with 3D Studio 4c1 (which actually does scanline rendering rather than true ray-tracing) in two hours on unknown hardware running OS/2 Warp:

This newest Gargoylean image features another (much better looking) humanoid. As with the others, it was made with 3D Studio, and before you ask: no, Gargoyle is not from Germany or Belgium or wherever Warper recently departed:

Here's another image by Sir Gargoyle, again taking a poke at our least favorite pretender to an operating system:

One more:

This hot ray-traced item is yet another by Mr. Gargoyle, based on an idea by brend@cs.colostate.edu. No rendering info was given on this one, but it seems likely that it was again done with 3D Studio:

Here's another lovely rendered background, this time by ``Michas from Germany'' (dvzmi@fh-duesseldorf.de). It too was created with 3D Studio 4 (do we sense a pattern here?), in six hours on unknown hardware. Gotta love that glassy floor:

Still another OS/2 Warp box, this time warping out of Earth orbit in what appears to be another 3D Studio rendering by an unknown artist. The big version used to be on Hobbes, but the entire bmp directory has now been removed. Alas, Greg was rather fond of the little moon at the upper right:

Here's a fine, understated OS/2 background by Clint Wheeler of pcF/X Productions (pcfx@unix.infoserve.net):

This pair was unabashedly swiped from Faheem Ahmed's Groovy OS/2 Bitmaps page in the UK. Neither one was credited, although Greg saw the second one on an IBMer's system several months ago and has been looking for it ever since (reportedly it's a modified version of one of the official POV-Ray demo scenes):

There will, of course, be more images to come as soon as Greg manages to find them. Whoa, gnarly!