EMAIL:jlloyd@wpmail.code3.com NAME:Jason Lloyd TOPIC:school COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE:2learn (To Learn!) COUNTRY:USA WEBPAGE:www.geocities.com/SoHo/3058/index.htm RENDERER USED:PovRay 3.01 TOOLS USED:Lview, Windows paint, 2 hands, Intuition! RENDER TIME: 29m 36s HARDWARE USED:Gateway Pentium 90, 16MB ram IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A school bus hurriedly speeds by a Red Giant as it drops out of hyperspace. Rushing to arrive on time at the rendezvous point. To the dismay of the captain, the convoy has already departed. The sound of anxious students can be heard through the bulkhead as they too realize that they are no longer under the protection of the fleet. Suddenly... DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: When I started this image, I knew that I wanted a theme that incorporated space, as well as school, this was a space station, the remains of which you can still see there. The station began to evolve, and soon it had a cockpit rather than living quarters, boosters instead of station keeping thrusters, and then drives rather than boosters. A ship was born! The sun started as a nova. It was fun to try to get different effects from the halo. It also evolved into a red giant as I played with scaling, position and other factors, it turned red on me, I liked it, I kept it. For the stars, I give credit to Jeff Burton who created the "stars.inc". The star field is a hollow sphere with a radius of 200000 units and textured with the stars1 pattern. The texture is scaled by 10000 so the stars would show up with a low AA value. I used windows Paint to create image maps for the fuel tanks and solar panels, but I probably could have gotten away without either of them, it makes for a nice scene. Lview pro was used in viewing the final images and rotating and converting the image maps to the required file formats. Finally I must give credit to the subscribers of the IRTC mailing list, for their patience with my endless rambling questions and whining. :) Happy Tracing! (: