EMAIL: castlewrks@aol.com NAME: Robert J Becraft TOPIC: Dreaming COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Wheels COUNTRY: USA WEBPAGE: RENDERER USED: POVRAY 3.1g TOOLS USED: PaintShop Pro (Label, JPEG conversion), POSER (3) RENDER TIME: 26 min 27 secs HARDWARE USED: Pentium 400mhz IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Wheels is inspired by a dream I had that also inspired a short story. The basic premis is that each wheel represents a life spinning through its days. Everyone has fast days and slow days... two things in this image affect how fast a wheel spins... first is the weeds growing on some of the wheels. The second is the human-like creatures that are climbing through the wheel world. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The image creation was rather simple... created a wheel, used several random loops to place the wheels. The ones for the figures were hand placed with random placement of the background wheels. There are a couple of different wheel textures. Finally, creation of the figures which was done in POSER. This was important because they are there to represent other aspects of the dream world. First and most obvious is the dream-world fear of falling, represented by the girl hanging on by one hand and accented by the 600x1200 size of the image. There is also a dream world representation of erotica by the lack of clothing on the figures. The male figure is in the dominent, higher position. This in and of itself represents many things dream-wise... male dominence, male potency, male adventurism, strength (better/faster climber), etc. The third female figure is there to represent male dominence again (2 females + 1 male), she sits passively watching the other two (the dreamers position). There is a lack of details on purpose. Dreams tend to have a focus and much of the details of real life are missing or blurred. There is light, but it is there to illuminate.