EMAIL: ericp@axess.com
NAME: Eric " Digital Merlin " Poirier
TOPIC: Sci-Fi
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: Lightwave 5.0
TOOLS USED: 3D Studio MAX, Lightwave 5.0, Universe v1.0 and my brain !
RENDER TIME:  48 minutes
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 166 40 megs 
OBJECTS CREATED BY: Eric " Digital Merlin " Poirier
             Dean A. Scott
             Harry H. Chang 



IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

  -" Lord Vader, the tie fighters equip with the new clocking devices
     are ready to be deployed, sir ".

  -" Excelent captain Hollum, proceed to the test area and launch Black 4, 7 and
8 ".

  -" At once my Lord. " 

  a few minutes later ...

  -" Black 4 to Executor we are ready to engage the clocking device."

  -" Executor to Black 4 start in 5.. 4.. 3.."

  -" 2.. 1.. Black 4 to Executor clocking devices engaged."

  -" Group Black were are monitoring your data. Declocking will start in..."

  -" Sir! we have a problem...  Look at input form the flux generators there 
      reaching 400mhxz "
  
  -" That can't be, they only have a limit of..."

  -" Black 4 to Execut... something wrong i fe.. bright ligh... can not stop
th..
      what the... AAARRRGGGG !!!"

  -" Sir! we have lost data and radio contact with group Black."

  -" Captain Hollum you have fail again..."

  -" Yes my Lord but the flux..."

  -" Sorry Hollum their will be no excuses this time!."        
         
  
  This scenes were taken from a short story i wrote here the B5 universe comes
in touch  
  with Star Wars. If you would like the complete story i will soon post it at my
web page:
  www.axess.com/users/ericp/         

        I thought it would be great to take my script and do a short movie with
it but 
        since it takes about 20 to 35 minutes of render time for each frame, and
i 
        have estimated that my short would be about 5 minutes long at 20 frames
per 
        seconds that is 1200 frames for a minute, 6000 frames for 5. 6000 frames
at
        25 minutes for rendering each frames = 150 000 minutes = 2500 hours =
105 days
        I have come to the obvious conlusions that you need some 200 000$ power
house
        machines to render ... can any one say SGI ?
 
        So i did renders of only a couple of frames and tough they would be
great for 
        this showcase.