EMAIL:  robsampson@sprynet.com
NAME:  Robert Sampson
TOPIC:  Science Fiction
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED:  Imagine 4.0 for DOS
TOOLS USED:  Photopaint, Vista Pro 3.1
RENDER TIME:  Total approximately 5 hours
HARDWARE USED:  Zeos P90, 40 meg ram, 2.6 gig drive space
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:  "Explore" was done as my second entry because I also wanted to do
a render with a space ship in it.  It shows a starfleet vessel backdroped by a nebulae and gas giant as it makes a low pass over one of the gas giants moons."

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:  The maps for the backdrop and planet
wrap were images I worked on after drawing them down from the HST site which is an excellent source for space images.  The planet was then created and raytraced using soft shadows in  Imagine for Dos and backdropped into Vista Pro.  That image was then again backdropped into Imagine for the addition of the ship (a great model by Carmen Rizzulo) for final rendering.  I had intended to utilize motion blur to give the ship the appearance of movement however the time required to get it right would have not allowed me to finish the image in time.  More than anything this image demonstrates what can be accomplished with Vista Pro and some net searching for maps.