This is something of a composite image; the catwalks and the pillars were both designed for a couple of other projects which haven't yet seen the light of day. Putting them together (in the process of working on a third project) yielded this image.

It's a composite image in another sense. It's actually the product of two separate scene files. For some reason known only to the implementors of Bryce, when I tried to add a distant object - initially a terrain, subsequently replaced by a spaceship - Bryce suddenly refused to map the yellow-and-black PICT image used on the pillars any more. Descending into the 2D texture library with a large axe failed to change its mind, so I conceded defeat and rendered two partial versions of the scene, one with the space ship and no 2D textures, the other with 2D textures but no spaceship. I then assembled the two in PhotoShop.

The figure in orange coveralls at the end of the walkway is, of course, a Poser figure, imported in the usual way.

The title and quotation used were originally attached to a different image, which was made with Bryce 1 and has now been phased out. They're from a song about the oil industry, and in particular what happens when you cut safety measures for the sake of profit. The odd thing is that I'm pretty certain that I first heard Tom Robinson sing this several months before the Piper Alpha disaster, which it clearly refers to. The guy must be clairvoyant or something ...

For anyone nostalgic for the original "rig that wasn't there" image, here it is.

Bryce 1 Rig Image [29K]