Bryce for Windows


	Bryce for Windows is a Treat for the Eyes

   Truth. I pestered the people at MetaTools for some time about when this program would make its debut in Windows.
   All I had ever seen was some Mac screen shots, but I was certainly impressed. While not artistic, I figured I could have some real fun with this program, create some really great special scenes and the like.
   I was right.
   In fact, the stuff you can do with Bryce is simply amazing. And, though I have a 200 MHz .

Pentium, the time it takes to render these scenes is simply amazingly fast. Bryce was worth the wait.
All those reflections, shadows and things in the scene above were done "automagically" by Bryce. I envisioned the scene, put things where I wanted them to go, selected textures and colors and, frankly, had a

great time making all this happen. From the one standpoint, this was all so easy to do, considering the complexity of the image, that it was almost a sin. On the other hand, the controls available to you with Bryce are such that you can spend days tweaking things if that is what you want to do.
What can you do with these startling 3D images? Almost anything. They would make great graphics for a newsletter, beautiful illustrations for a brochure and, to be honest, drop-dead graphics for wallpaper.
You can save in a number of PC-type formats, import to PhotoShop, and then add in other things as well. The look at Hell on

the left actually includes a flying Angel of Death which I borrowed from a painting – which is why I'm not displaying the "finished product" here. I use it with my own screen saver.
Like most of MetaTools' products, the interface is fun. What I thought was especially nifty was using greyscale pictures for textures. I have a mountain that looks like my granddaughter's footprint, for instance. Truly, the uses of Bryce (named, by the way, for the National Park which itself features some spectacular terrain) are limited only by your own imagination. And, because you can make 3D shapes (cones, pyramids, balls, cubes and other stuff (even monoliths for "2001 scenes"), Bryce becomes a very versatile tool for a lot of different things.
You can check out some of the professional artwork on MetaTools' web site.


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