EMAIL: mbrown@spry.com
NAME: Matthew Corey Brown
TOPIC: Glass
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Orbital Sunset
COUNTRY: USA
RENDERER USED: povray for windows 3.0
TOOLS USED: PaintShop Pro
RENDER TIME: 62 hrs 07 minutes 23 seconds
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 90
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

"Aug 12th, 4014
	As i look out my window and see the sunset from orbit, it marks the end of
humanity's exile from homeworld. The earth has healed itself. May we have the wisdom 
to live as partners with the earth and not as a slave master."

I truly think the wisdom isn't there though,  the room is too clean and lacks in nature. 
The sunset signifies the death of earth again, not the end of humanity's exile as the
writer of the journal hopes.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
All by hand and povwin's internal editor.

The basic room Shape is a box with a super ellipsoid cut out the center. The window
shape is a bunch of boxes and cylinders rotated.

The pictures (3 in all, 1 is readily apparent and the other two are hinted at in 
reflections, as is the door to the room) are all raytraces i've done in the past.

the Bed, desk and chair's seat are a super ellipsoids.

the chairs legs are cylinders and tori.

Earth atmosphere is a dust halo and its clouds are a spiral pigment map of spiral pigments.

The floor has a bump map of a blurry X that i did in paintshop pro

The Sun is a disk mixed with a subtle lensflare using Nathan Kopps Lensflare v2.7 
include file.