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.