EMAIL: steve@g7mrp.demon.co.uk
NAME: Steve Attwood
TOPIC: Science Fiction
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 2.2
TOOLS USED: Cyber Sculpt 1.1, Display 1.87b, Corel Draw 3.0, Paint Shop 
            Pro 3.12, 3D2POV 1.8
RENDER TIME: 34 minutes
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 60MHz 8Mb RAM, Atari 520STFM 2.5Mb RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Title: 'Interceptor' - An F9 Hornet interceptor speeds to 
                   investigate a distant target in Proxima Centauri space.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The spacecraft was modelled using the Cyber Sculpt package on the Atari
ST. The model was split into three files by saving different objects in
each of the files, and these were converted to .INC file for use in POV by 
3D2POV. The outer wings and engines were converted using no smoothing factor, 
to retain the hard edges, whereas the centre section was smoothed. The three 
seperate .INC files were then joined together in Write.

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 a variety of paint packages, 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 spacecraft. 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.

A sphere was added for the background, and using a .GIF file for stars, and 
a number of layered textures (agate pigment) were used which have transparency 
as part of the colour maps, so the background has the effect of plasma and gas 
clouds, as seen in 'Babylon 5'. Another sphere completed the scene with an
agate texture for use as a planet. 

The image was finally rendered, requiring a 3Mb swap file and a little over 
half 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 97%.

Steve-----> 
19th October 1996
This is image can also be seen among others at my WWW Gallery:-  
http://www.g7mrp.demon.co.uk/dwsteve.html