EMAIL: serbel@utu.fi
NAME: n:kita
TOPIC: Science Fiction
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.0 for Windows 3.xx
TOOLS USED:
RENDER TIME: 22 min 23 sec.
HARDWARE USED: Pentium-120

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

I got to know about the competition only a few days ago. I started using POV-Ray
recently  (a couple of weeks ago). Experimenting with 3DStudio v.3 persuaded me
to look for a proper ray-tracer.
I got so fascinated by effects in POV-Ray and the images from previous
competitions, that I decided to produce an image myself.

Perhaps, present image is not exactly a science fiction scene (please forgive
me, I had so little time), but, to my mind, Philippe Starck's "Juicy Salif"
does somewhat resemble an alien, a spaceship, or a weapon.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

I utilised my old object originally made with Autocad or 3DStudio. I could have
used POV-Ray to create it. It's a union of a number of meshes.
The object was converted to POV-Ray, rotated and copied to represent a group of
aliens. The texture is similar to P_Chrome5, from metals.inc.

The ground is a huge polygon with "wrinkles".

Some reddish fog and clouds were added to the scene to simulate depth and "fiery
explosion", which is also supported by a rather distant light source. I did not
use any bitmaps here.