The background is from St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, using the HDR angular map file developed by Paul Debevec. Jeremy, Catherine and I spent many hours in less than a week modelling, coding, and rendering this chess image. I spent my time modelling the knight piece with the Wings 3D package, implementing high dynamic range radiance image maps (HDRI) in our scene, applying some of the textures and lighting as well as a few of the cameras. Infinite thanks to David Wallace, who guided us!

• Completed: 6 March 2003
• Software: Povray, MLPov, Wings3D
• UC Berkeley Undergraduate Graphics Group project