EMAIL: kayway@ix.netcom.com
NAME:  Kerwin D Kanago
TOPIC: Sience Fiction
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray for Windows
TOOLS USED: POV-Ray
RENDER TIME: 8hrs 17min
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 166 (HP Pavilion 7270)

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Just off the tarmac of Launch Pad 7 at Epsilon Starbase, is a rustic
old dive where the Rocket Jocks gather for a last dirtside drink before
they make "the jump".

It's known as "Terminal Bar", and most guests assume it was named for
Robinson Terminal 2k to the east. Regulars, however, know that it was
named for the lethal brawls that erupt here so regularly you could set
your time machine by them.

Tipping the Robo-Waitresses is NOT required but it is a VERY good
idea; the last StarBoar to stiff them is still hanging around the
fireplace.

Be sure and note the following:
 o Alien in front on the left holds 2 Kings, a card you can't see,
     a 9, and a 6 - KK_96 - My signature!
 o Alien on the front right holds Aces and Eights! (Dead Man's Hand)
 o Alien "beaming in" in the background has a phasor drawn, while the
     table of StarBoars he is aiming at have begun take notice of his
     arrival and their impending doom!
 o Note that the waitresses here truly have "Abs of Steel"!
 o Even in space, there is still romance, as some departing spacer has
    left his love a rose on the fireplace.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

Everything was gone directly in the POV-Ray for windows editor, except
for the gifs used for the faces of cards, bar napkins, and bottle
lables that were done with "Picture Man"

The building was done with on graph paper and then built of boxes. I
had been planning this for a while for a different scene but put it
aside to work on Science Fiction.

Without really knowing where I was headed I started on the Female
Android that later became Robo-Waitress. As this developed I realized 
I could put the "bar" scene and the Robots together.

From there I started making aliens and adding them to the scene. This 
looked a little too stiff and mechanical so I began varying the poses,
adding props and trying to make each of them looked like they were
there for a reason.

Space suits are unions of spheres and cylinders. "The Greys" (Super-
market tabloid aliens playing poker) are done as blobs based on pretty
much the same collection of spheres and cylinders.

Robo-Waitress and StarBoars are blobs done freehand, but after 
finishing the bodys and legs on the waitresses, I decided to keep the
arms and heads as simple shapes so it didn't lose all sense of being a
"robot".

The spiderwebs in the rafters are triangles with two mostly transparent
texures using crackle and onion.

The fireplace took 12 hours of making psuedo random rocks and hand
positioning them on a superelipsoid block of grey "mortar".

Halos are used to create the fire in the fireplace and the smoke from
the cigar.

Beaming in effect was done by making a copy of one of the aliens and
giving it an agate texture which was mostly transparent with small
patches of "martian" color and a little sparkle. I then added two halos
one tall and thin and the other disk shaped in electric blue-ish white.