Hello! Founded in 1996, the Bryce Forum gallery was the first 3D gallery on the internet to accept public submissions. It also featured a live judging panel. A lot of great Bryce artists posted their work at the Bryce Forum Gallery for more than 8 years. Here is an old link the gallery (courtesy of Wayback Machine): http://web.archive.org/web/20000830113027/www.watchfuleye.com/brycelobby.html See you, Bruce MacLeod watchfuleye.com Renderosity: bpmac

Oops! I just learned that Iris prints can now get as large as 60 x 90 inches. The math would be the same. 30 X 90 inches @ 300 dpi.

After doing a lot of high-end Iris prints, I've learned the magic specs. They are simple to remember, and I'm happy to pass them on to you. For best results: Render your images 300dpi at half the size of the final print The largest print an Iris printer can create is 48 inches X 48 inches, so rendering you pics to be 24 inches X 24 inches @ 300dpi will always yield fantastic results. If the image isn't square just make sure the widest side is 24 inches and render at 300dpi. Any larger than this is a waste of disk space. I got these specs from one of the premier print shops in the world. They do a lot of museum quality archive work. If you can't render this big, render as large as possible and use a product like Genuine Fractals to bump up the resolution: http://genuinefractals.com/ This is a truly amazing product and has a free trial download that is unrestricted. There is just a limited number of times you can use it before you have to pay. Even if you do not intend to print that big, rendering your images at that size and archiving them to CD will ensure that you will be able to print or reproduce your images at any size in the future. You can always print them smaller. Cheers Bruce

Title: Bruce. My father, a professional photographer, took this picture of me 40 years ago when I was 9. This picture was taken about a week after I found out my folks were getting divorced. I was shellshocked. He passed away this year and I am posting the photo for him, in remembrance.- Bruce

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Some great insight on a brilliant Bryce composition.

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Hi folks, Thanks for your kind words about the Bryce Forum Gallery! I realize that my gallery has been a stable resource for a very long time in the Bryce community. But gallery participation has slipped over the last year and I made the decision to go out while it was still vital rather than just letting it fade away. As previously pointed out, a huge number of the links pointed to Renderosity. Although I really like Renderosity (Im an active contributing member), the relationship was beginning to erode the fundamental original purpose of my gallery. My original idea was to have artists post links to their personal web galleries, and not have to rely on service style galleries like Renderosity. This system would bring visitors directly to the artists web site. At the time I created my gallery the big full service guys like Renderosity and 3Dcommune did not yet exist. It would seem that digital artists like the Renderosity metaphor, and links to private galleries can be supplied by simply by joining the webring. This put me in a tough position. I could turn my gallery into a Renderosity style gallery simply by buying and installing similar software. But it would really only be duplicating the active Bryce community already at Renderosity. The beauty of the Bryce Forum Gallery is that it was Bryce-only. That was also its biggest weakness. The judging panel part of my gallery is a very cool concept and has yet to be implemented at any other gallery as effectively, but that is not a compelling enough reason to keep going when you look at the situation as a whole. Im sorry to be so long winded but you people are friends and I feel like you deserve to know whats really going on. I plan to be posting to the Renderosity Bryce gallery soon and I look forward to see you all there. All the best! Bruce MacLeod