EMAIL: no13@ozemail.com.au NAME: Nathan O'Brien TOPIC: science fiction COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. RENDERER USED: povray 3 for windows TOOLS USED: Autocad & custom lsp routines for the modelling Paintshop Pro for JPG conversion RENDER TIME: 4 hours 7 minutes HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133 with 512 cache, 64 Mb ram, WIN NT v4 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This is the desk of someone who writes science fiction. I know it's a slippery connection with the topic but I din't want to do sapceships or that kind of stuff. I figured that there would be zillions of spaceships, robots, aliens etc. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The scene was drawn in autocad and assembled piece by piece. In the pov code I tried out some scene switches posted by Paul T. Dawson to the IRTC discussion group. These worked extremely well.