I have always believed that technology is a pure and vibrant outgrowth of nature, and that the wonder it provides is only made possible through the power of the rational mind. This image embodies that fundamental philosophy by merging the figure of man and machine in a joyous and purposeful flight over a complex fractal terrain.
This image was created on a Commodore Amiga personal computer with a Picasso II 24 bit frame buffer using a variety of tools. The landscape was created from a DEM (Digital Elevation Map) of the Grand Canyon using World Construction Set and the various foliage and atmospheric features provided by that program. The figure is based on a combination of Crestline Software's Humanoid, and a DC-10 from the Syndesis 3D-ROM. The image was rendered in Impulse's Imagine ray tracer, while the jet exhausts were painted in with semi-transparent color and blurring from TV Paint.