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, Vista Pro 3.1, Photopaint
RENDER TIME:  Total approximately 5 hours
HARDWARE USED:  Zeos P90, 40 meg ram, 2.6 gig drive space
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:  "Ambush" is an image I created in two days using
models I had made from previous renders.  It depicts the ambush of a 
walker by two antigrav tanks on a far off moon.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:  The ringed gas giant was 
created in Imagine using the gas giant texture, the two suns were created
by applying twinkle texture to flat discs.  This image was then back
dropped into Vista Pro where after working on the cmap colors I took a 
render of Olympus Mons.  This image was then given a slight blur for 
effect and the Mons Dem file was exported as a dxf to Imagine where I 
worked on the textures to get it close to the background.  I then took
the antigrav tank and walker I had previously created and textured in
Imagine in about 40 hours of time and placed them on the dxf ground and
lit the scene with a shadow casting light.  Lights built into the tanks 
give the dished section the greenish glow.