EMAIL: mbrown@spry.com
NAME: Matthew Corey Brown
TOPIC: Science Fiction
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: povray 3.0 for linux
TOOLS USED: hf-lab
RENDER TIME: 16 hours 37 minutes
HARDWARE USED: 486 DX2-50

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Welcome to the Office of ALien Technology (OAT) This agency was 
established after the ALien invasion of 2012. Behind you you will notice 
the Alien Mothership, at rest in it crash postition. Don't worry too much 
about those enginees are on we have been assured that it is perfectly 
safe to have them on. (Not to mentionion that fact we haven't figured out 
how to turn them off.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

I pratically drooled when i found out that this month was science 
fiction.. thats the sorta thing i like to do. However I wasn't satisfied 
with any of my space scenes i had created so far so i didn't want to do a 
space scene (wich i'm sure there will be plenty of those) The landed 
mothership of V the series kinda stuct out in my head and the building 
where i had my interview for my new job did also. Mostly cause the glass 
made an almost perfect mirror of the late afternoon sky. 

The building is just a few boxes with graident texturemaps for the 
glass/building material  differences. And a door tacked onto the bottom.

The sign is just an intersection of of a box and a text object

the lamps are just a couple of cylinders and cones

the small ships in the refllection is a poor attemtp of a shuttle craft 
(mainly a last minute addition to balance the scene a bit and to try to 
show scale

The huge mother ships main hull is a bunch of sphere cutout and scalled.
The texture given its wird look by using a dents normal average with 
crackle with lots of turbulence

the use of wrinkles and pigment_maps help the creation of relatistic 
clouds be much easier.

EVerything has been wrtten by me except for the water texture which i 
lifted from pov3demo/showoff/sunset3 thanx so much to  Dan Farmer for 
such an excelent water texture.. Which is also the place i got the idea 
for  using wrinkle for clouds.. Thanx again Dan.