TITLE: TimeShot NAME: Jeff Goeson COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: JGoeson@msn.com TOPIC: Arts & Entertainment COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: timeshot.jpg RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.0 TOOLS USED: POV-Ray 3.0 RENDER TIME: 45 min HARDWARE USED: IBM P133 WIN95 48MB RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The scene in Star Trek: First Contact where the Borg ship opens the Temporal rift and flies through was the inspiration for this picture. I thought it would be cooler if the whole cube was flying through, and not just the "escape sphere". DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I started out building the Borg cube with little boxes arranged as 5 to a row, five rows to a wall, 5 walls. I did this to give the illusion of the cube not being entirely solid (you can see through or into the Borg ships in all of the episodes that include Borg encounters). Then, I built the grid that goes around the outside, literally one cylinder at a time. Each grid panel is 4 cylinders and one sphere, then they're arranged over the individual pieces of the main ship. The temporal wake is a cylinder with my own "temporal" pigment set. The star field is also my own creation. Most of the star fields I have seen are too busy, bright, or crowded, so I built my own. If you want to see code I wrote for the Borg cube, the grid, the star field, or the temporal wake (or all of it), drop me an e-mail at jgoeson@msn.com, and I'll be glad to e-mail the zip of the code to you.