EMAIL: woehrle@gfai.fta-berlin.de
NAME: Tim Woehrle
TOPIC: Science Fiction
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: winpov 3.0
TOOLS USED: iPhoto + V 1.1
RENDER TIME: 3 hours 13 min
HARDWARE USED: 486 33 MHz (OK OK, time to buy a new one)
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Hi,

This is the first time I join this competition, and I will be very
surprised if I'll win it. But we'll see...

I had the idea for this image when I read a book about the Mars and
Jupiter expiditions in the past, and saw the graet jupiter image
with the two moons I've used as a background. Surfing on the net,
I found the picture on the NASA server, and the rest was a matter
of a few days.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

As I've described, I used the Jupiter image as a background. I just
mapped it on a large box. Please note that that box has no diffuse,
but full ambient light. Therefore the spacecraft can't make shadows
on the Jupiter (which would give the image a VERY unrealistic touch).

I was very pleased when I experimented with the new feature, the halo.
The spacecraft's flames are of course a halo in a rescaled sphere with
a white core.

The rest of the spacecraft ist good old CSG. Forgive me that I
use german names for some of the spacecraft's components; I didn't
know such technical terms in english.


Tim