EMAIL: alex@informatik.uni-bremen.de
NAME: Alexei Semitchastnyi
TOPIC: Science Fiction
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: povray 3.0beta
TOOLS USED: Adobe Photoshop (tm) for some textures
RENDER TIME: about 4h
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 120
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I have had an idea, to try to create, what would look the talk of two energical (i. e. not materie-based) species like? This is one of the results.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I have found a halo-feature of POV-Ray 3.0 very usefull and beautifull. One of the tries to use a halos in non-trivial way was to create a flashes. (A really 3D one). I have add a Delphi programm unit to zip-archive, that I have create for this purpose. ( There are maybe not so realistic flashes can be seen around of glass-sphere in the bottom part of image ). All another techniques in this scene are not coplex and can be found in the file "halos.pov".