EMAIL: myra0002@gold.tc.umn.edu NAME: Rod Myran TOPIC: Science Fiction COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. RENDERER USED: Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer Version 3.0 TOOLS USED: Paint Shop Pro RENDER TIME: 1 hour 50 minutes HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Jibber the pilot of my spaceship is wandering around in space when he notices he is by the planet Gretty and it's moon. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I started this project thinking about how to create a realistic looking doll (Jibber), but I soon found out that after about 16,000 lines of code that the image was going to be so small that it would not show all the detail. I spent a lot of time on his hands and hair. His hands are made of multiple blob objects and his hair is made of about 350 cut up torus objects randomly rotated to give the effect of real hair. The space ship was a challenge, I started out by making a blob object for the hull and then giving the hull a metallic look with an image map that I found on the internet. I had the most trouble creating the light on the ends of the wings I could not figure out how to make them look like a light for the longest time, but then it dawned on me that a Halo is the solution. The planet Gretty is a sphere with cylinders around it (for the rings). Gretty's moon is a image map pasted on a sphere. The image map that I used is an actual picture of the earth's moon.