EMAIL: jason.glover@worldnet.att.net
NAME: Jason Glover
TOPIC: Great Engineering Achievements
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: HST (Hubble Space Telescope)
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: n/a
RENDERER USED: POV-RAY 3.0
TOOLS USED: Paint Shop Pro 3.0, Fractint, Corel Photopaint, CorelDraw
RENDER TIME: 3 hours
HARDWARE USED: Pent200 32MB RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is often hailed
as a great achievement of Astronomy and Cosmology, but getting the
thing up there and working properly was a great ENGINEERING achievement!
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Starfield is a GIF created with
Fractint.  Earth is a blue sphere with several layers of color and pattern
gradients with a "fake" halo.  A real Halo took to long to render and was
too difficult to iterate.  The halo used is simply a plane sliced through 
the center of the earth with an "onion" pattern that fades to black from
the center.  Works and looks way better than a real halo.  I built the HST 
using Pov's CSG (yes, every rivet) and stuck it up there.  I used CorelDraw
to make the NASA gif.  Then I used Corel Photopaint for JPG convert.
The HST is backlit, with earth behind the camera.  An area light between
the earth and the HST provides the blue ambient lighting.