=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Image: SjG_beatah.jpg Background: Entry for the July 1995 Internet Raytrace Competition Render time: 800x600 with 2x oversample anti-aliasing: 1 hours 45 minutes using Strata Studio Pro 1.5.2 on on a PowerMac 8100/110 with 32 Meg of memory. Legal: Created by Samuel J. Goldstein. This file is Copyright (C) 1995. All rights reserved. You may use this source file to create the scene or use the components in your own scenes, with or without modifications, freely for NON-COMMERCIAL purposes. Please send me a copy of any scene (other than the original) that incorporates any significant part of this file. Commercial users please contact me for terms of use or information about my art services. I can be reached at: 4227 Sunnyside Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90066-5609 310-822-5426 goldstein@aerospace.aero.org =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The Subject for July's contest contained the word Wierd at least three times. Perhaps that explains what happened here. Perhaps again, I should have held off and entered this in the August Contest (in complete and flagrant violation of all the rules), since it seems to match that subject as well or better than July's. OK, here goes: In the late Eggbeatocene Epoch (when the various Kitchen Mixing Gadgets ruled the Earth) there was a significant evolutionary shift. It seems that the introduction of the new species, Crankblenderous, threatened to displace the previously dominant Whiskasourus from its native habitat of mountain lakes and other high elevation wetlands. The dominion of the CrankBlenderous, of course, was relatively short lived, as it was quickly overrun by various members of the ElectricBlenderous family (originally by E. Plugin, but later by the notable E. Batterius and E. Cordless) Whiskasaurus and CrankBlenderous evidently survived in smaller numbers until the present era, and, if the rumors are true, can still be found in older kitchenlands. Uh, yeah, whatever. ___Samuel___ Source is 1.98 Meg (TDMP*), and requires Strata Studio Pro to read. I'd be happy to send the source to anyone who's interested. Email me for arrangements. * TDMP - Too Damn Many Polygons