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.