EMAIL: bonsalva@bellsouth.net
NAME: Raymond A. Salvatore		
TOPIC: First Encounters
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Hernando Cortes Arriving At Tenochtitlan
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: none
RENDERER USED: Raydream Studio 5 raytracer
TOOLS USED: Raydream Studio 5, Picture Publisher 6, 4-elements
RENDER TIME: 30 minutes
HARDWARE USED: PENTIUM 233 MMX WITH 64 MEG SDRAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: On the 8th of November, 1519 Cortes and his small
  army entered the capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan.  They
  saw incredible pyramids and fantastic buildings.  They were treated
 like gods by the Aztecs. Their leader, Montezuma, had been forwarned
 by his priests that their great god Quetzalcoatl was arriving.  The
 Aztecs had never seen white men, horses, or guns. 
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:I created most of the objects
  using the free form modeleler. I worked on the armor, weapons, horse
  and pyramid in separate rendering scenes.  When I finished all of the
  components I combined them into one scene.  This method guaranteed
  that I would not lose any large section of work if the scene became
  unusable because of an error.  It also enabled me to keep up my
  interest, as I got bored with one area, I switched to something much
  different.  Also by building piece by piece as was not overwhelmed by
  my final goal, so even with Christmas and four birthdays by December
  26th I had enough finished to complete my picture.  Hope you like it.