EMAIL:   mickmcm@indigo.ie
NAME:    Mick McMullin
TOPIC:   Flight
TITLE:   The Destroyer
COUNTRY: Ireland

COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: povray 3.00e for Windows
TOOLS USED: Texture Magic, Paint Shop Pro (for titles and JPEG conversion)
RENDER TIME: 1h 12m 18s
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 90
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
	Some Robot biker dude who's making good use of the new laser canon
	on his flying bike.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
	I created this image without any external modellers, just entering
	text into the editor. However, I created new textures a few days
	ago with Texture Magic and substituted them in. I'll definitely be
	registering this program and I'd recommend it to anyone.

	The sky is a textured sphere which wasn't looking right until I
	moved the subject matter nearer the top rather than in the center.
	It's obvious when you think about it - there's more atmosphere
	between you and the horizon than there is above your head. I'd
	like to say that I came up with such a simple but effective
	trick, but I'd be lying of course - I got it from a posting
	in the raytracing newsgroup made by Nick Stevens. The ground
	was simply a smaller sphere sharing the same centre point as
	the sky. The clouds above the ground were a little tricky to
	get right; transparent textures on spheres just didn't seem
	to work. In the end I used POV's halo function which I scaled
	appropriately.

	The flying bike was the easiest bit as it was very much
	improvised. To add detail, I simply repeated a few basic elements
	but scaled them differently and unevenly. The robot figure wasn't
	too difficult either. I had created a figure template for my
	other entry, Angel, so I just used different values and added a
	bit more detail.

	Source code is included - feel free to use & enjoy!

	Mick.
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