EMAIL: steve@g7mrp.demon.co.uk
NAME: Steve Attwood
TOPIC: Science Fiction
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: Pentpov 2.2 (Pentium 'optimised' version of POV-Ray 2.2
               re-compiled by andy@osea.demon.co.uk)
TOOLS USED: Cyber Sculpt 1.1, Display 1.87b, Paint Shop Pro 3.12, 3D2POV 1.8
RENDER TIME: 44 minutes
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 60MHz 24Mb RAM, Atari 520STFM 4Mb RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Title: 'Dawn Patrol' - A fighter leaves it's hardened
                   shelter skimming low over the surface of a desert world
                   as the planet's red giant sun rises in the distance.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The spacecraft and pyramid were modelled using the Cyber Sculpt package on 
the Atari ST. The models were created seperately, and these were converted to 
.INC files for use in POV by 3D2POV.  

3D2POV converts Cyber Sculpt .3D2 files into POV-Ray smooth triange .INC
files, some of which can be very(!) large.

Textures were then created using Paint Shop Pro, which are tileable and code 
(image maps) was added to the .POV file generated by the 3D2POV program to 
apply the textures to the surface of the two models. A grey scale 'tile' was 
also applied (as a bump map) which is just a number of overlapping grey blocks 
to give the impression of irregular surfaces and bolt-on panels.

The models were positioned in the scene using translate and rotate commands in 
the .INC files.

Two spheres with appropriate textures were added for use as a sun and a moon, 
and two planes were placed in such a way so that a swirling cloud texture that 
is almost transparent is placed on the lower plane, and a plain blue pigment 
is used on the upper plane. This alows the two spheres in the background to be
placed in between the two planes so that the cloud covers the spheres, and
there is a blue sky for the background.

The image was finally rendered using a Pentium optimised version of POV-Ray 2.2
and nearly three-quarters of an hour to raytrace with anti-alaising set to 0.3.


A copyright message was added using Paint Shop Pro, and the image was converted
to JPEG format using Display 1.87b with the quality set to 99%.

Steve-----> 
26th October 1996
This is image can also be seen among others at my WWW Gallery:-  
http://www.g7mrp.demon.co.uk/dwsteve.html