EMAIL: robsampson@sprynet.com NAME: Robert Sampson TOPIC: Science Fiction COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. RENDERER USED: Imagine 4.0 for DOS TOOLS USED: AcadR13 solids modeler RENDER TIME: Total approximately 25 hours HARDWARE USED: Zeos P90, 40 meg ram, 2.6 gig drive space IMAGE DESCRIPTION: "Tartarus" is an underworld power station. It started out as an experiment with Imagine's blob modeler and ideas simply grew as I went along. There was no specific plan to create this image when it was started. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: After creating the center section of the reactors I went to Acad to add mechanical details. I had isolines set higher than required, and as a result the objects size grew faster and larger than anticipated. The upper background is the result of bump and texture mapping a tif file to a section of cylinder while the lower section is solely created using Imagines textures. Due to the size of the object even though I have 40 meg of ram I had to render each object separately. It was then used as a backdrop image while rendering the next reactor. Total render's required was 7.