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.