EMAIL: itac6ma@gorseinon.ac.uk
NAME: Michael Ashelby
TOPIC: Science Fiction
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray v3.0 for Windows
TOOLS USED: None
RENDER TIME: Ooooh. Lots. **************
HARDWARE USED: P75 24mb
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The image created is my own rendition of the  scene in
Independence Day where the White House is attacked by the aliens. It was
heavily inspired by the film, but I created the image on my own from scratch
with this inspiration.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The image was created using only POV
3 for Windows (on '95). I started initially by creating the trees from a random
generator that I coded myself (in POV code). Each leaf is individually rendered
in a mesh that covers each 'Sub-Branch'. I then started modelling the White
House itself in POV code. Once finished and lit, the space ship and laser were
created. The shower of particles were created using also in a mesh, and the
central laser was an emmitting halo. The clouds of dust were, obviously, dust
halos, internally lit with a fairly large turbulence.