TITLE: Wheels
NAME: Robert J Becraft
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: castlewrks@aol.com
TOPIC: Dreaming
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: wheel.jpg
ZIPFILE: wheel.zip
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.