EMAIL: leadfoot@why.net
NAME: John S. Atchley
TOPIC: Science Fiction
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray version 3 for 32-bit Windows
TOOLS USED: Paint Shop Pro (shareware), GeoRay (self-written utility)
RENDER TIME: 29 Minutes
HARDWARE USED: 100Mhz Pentium laptop with 16Mb of memory, Windows95
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The Battlestar Dyslexia.  The Dyslek are extremely aggressive
high-tech barbarians.  They build ships and weapons of awesome power. 
Fortunately for the rest of the galaxy, they do have one well-known weakness...
 Here we see the new flagship of the Dyslek fleet as it begins to leave the
spacedock at their home world of Dys.  Close observers will note that about
half of the gun turrets on the Battlestar Dyslexia's defense grid have been
mounted backwards -- a fact the Dyslek are not likely to notice before the
first test firing...
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The defensive grid was generated with
a utility I am developing called "GeoRay."  GeoRay allows you to select from a
list of multiple objects to place at the "hubs" on geodesic structures and will
rotate the hubs to point back at the origin of the sphere.  I simply built two
identical turret objects, one rotated backwards from the other, and instructed
GeoRay to randomly select one of the two turrets for each hub location.  The
title was added using Paint Shop Pro.  This was rendered at 640X480 because
800x600 would not meet the size restrictions for this contest.