SummerDreams is copywright 1995 by Harry Miller Turned out pretty interestingly, did it not? Well... What is it? Artists always have the problem of not being able to tell whether or not the average Joe or Barby(Hey I'm politically correct), will be able to tell what exactly the hell the image is of. Of course I guess this can help sometimes, since sometimes the art community can make the image into something it's totally not-- Perhaps even great enough to be said 'It's better then Velveta!'. I mean, They look at the Mona Lisa, and they say "It's the 7th wonder of the world! Look at that perfect smile!", and we say "Hmmmm, She must be getting some or something". Seriously. Well SummerDreams is actually an image of the summer sun setting over a pond. Maybe it rained, maybe it's dew, but there happens to be alot of drops, that are causeing ripples, which is the main focus of SummerDreams. I dunno if you've ever taken a close look at water reactions when dropping a drop of water on it-- Which BTW we are all supposedly supposed to have studied in 8th grade science, but which of course we didn't, because we were, afterall, busy terrorizing our teacher, and instilling fear in his/her life, because... HEY, we're Evil Incarnate. Anyhow what happens usually, is that when you drop the water drop on a water surface, you'll see that another drop will bounce back up out of the water, and the water surronding where the first drop fell will, ripple away. It gets more complicated, with counter-waves and ripples, and what not, but I was clever enough to keep away from that. That should explain things, those two brown thingy-ma-bobs sticking out of the pond, are supposed to be trees, whether or not they are dead or not is another matter that would probably require an holy quest to figure out. SummerDreams was created and rendered entirely by me on an '030 Amiga 3000, with Imagine 2.0. The Amiga 3000 it was created on has about 12 megs of RAM(2 Megs chip, and 10 megs fast). This version of SummerDreams took aproximately 25 hours and 24 minutes to render at an resolution of 640x480x256(GIF). This version was mainly meant for you IBM folk out there. SDreams.GIF is a freely distributable image, however in my own interest there are a few limits I must lay down. Firstly you may distribute it as you like, however this readme file you are reading right now, MUST remain with it. Secondly you may modify it freely however, you must first contact me for express written permission, and then you must give me credit in your final product, and you must send me a copy/one of your final product(s). You may include/use SummerDreams in any publication/advertisment/package/computer application or any profit venture, however you must contact me to recieve written consent, you must give me credit, and you must send me a final product of what you are doing. This version of SummerDreams.GIF should be 140,936 bytes. If it is not, it has either been modified or corrupted, please delete it and inform your sysop to delete it immediately-- If you want a copy of the real version, either contact me to figure out a way to get it to you electronically or, send me a self-addressed stamped envelope and disk, and I will copy you a version, and mail it back to you. This text file should also be with the file, but I guess, if you didn't have this file you wouldn't know that, so be nice, and if you see a version besides the one your looking at right now that has the text, that doesn't have the text, please ask your sysop to delete it immedately, and please upload the correct version. Also out there is SDreams.IFF. This is the IFF version, which is mostly intended as the 'Amiga' version. It's 320x400x4096-- 4,096 colors is MUCH prettier then 256 colors ya know If you would like the IFF 'Amiga' version, or if you would like the 640x480x4096 IFF 'Amiga' version(for all you AGA folks out there), send me a self-addressed stamped envelope and a disk, and specify what version you'd like, and I'll copy it for you. DISCLAIMER: I am responsible for nothing. I'm lazzy, I drool pizza all over my computer, and I like Ovaltine. All I do is Jello in the freezer, and infact I don't even Jiggle. The only thing I can take credit for is, the positive things you see about this picture, and then only if I want to. As for the negative side of things, like if you think it's horrible, fall back in shock on the verge of seisure, trip on you Hamster/lizard/kid, smash through the wall, fall back into some mosh pit, and find yourself being dressed up as Barby, as some sort of sacrifice to Kurt Cobain, Well ummm.. It's not *MY* fault! If you have any comments, file requests, or if you just love SummerDreams so much, that you feel like sending in a donation(I'll be able to make better pictures!), or even just to send in a post card(I wanna hear from ya!), please send them all to: Harry H. Miller 1619 Mt. High St. WoodBridge, Va. 22192 Always remeber... "DON'T PANIC!" P.S. Viva 'da Amiga!