EMAIL:craig610@aol.com
NAME:Craig G. Smith
TOPIC:Science Fiction
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED:POV-Ray 3.0 Windows Version
TOOLS USED:Texture Magic, Breeze Designer 2.0,TerrainMaker, AutoCad
RENDER TIME:2 hrs
HARDWARE USED:100 MHz Pentium
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:Wind-Powered Magnetic Shuttle Launcher
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The 1.5 megawatt windmill
was constructed using photographs of actual windmills as examples.
The blade was constructed using a while loop to rotate, translate, and
deform a trigonometric representation of a triangle to determine the 
vertices of triangle patches.
While loops were also used to place the launch and landing ramps supports,
the magnetic torii, and the window frames on the building.
Modifications to the heightfield, i.e. the cliff, roads, and forest,
were constructed by slightly offsetting intersections with the 
heightfield.  The image map used for the cliff texture was prepared by
cutting and pasting a photograph of a Yosemite rock face.  The shuttle
and glider were constructed using AutoCad.  The water texture is a 
composite texture of waves, ripples ,and bumps.