EMAIL: english@spiritone.com
NAME: Josh English
TOPIC: Future
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Farewell to the cradle
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
WEBPAGE: http://www.spiritone.com/~english/gallery/index.html
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.5
TOOLS USED: Poser 2.0, Python, Explode.inc, lens.inc
RENDER TIME: 48 min 21 sec at 1600*1200, plus 2.5 hours for the monitor images
HARDWARE USED: iMac 233 MHz
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
In the Babylon 5 episode "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" we see the last human watching the Sun give up the ghost. That is the inspiration for these last two humans watching our sun go kaplooey.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
There are six monitors in this scene, five of which have the results of other POV-Ray files. I used Chris Colefax's explode.inc and lens.inc files in the main image and in some of the monitor images.
The two people were created in Poser 2 and exported to Wavefront's OBJ format, which I converted with a Python script.
The interior textures are done with negative colors and specular highlighting.