TITLE: Gold Island
NAME: Brad Kaiser
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: ekaiser@camden.tds.net
WEBPAGE: none
TOPIC: Night
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: cyclorma.jpg
ZIPFILE: cyclorma.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Pov-Ray

TOOLS USED: 
    lparser, dome 4.6

RENDER TIME: 
    about 5 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    pentium 133

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

This is the view in front of and behind of you while 
standing on an island at night. 


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
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Originaly this image was a 360 degree view of the island at 282*1692 
pixels, which would give an image with about the same area as an 800*600 
image. Then I realized that was completely against the rules so I felt pretty 
stupid and had to split the image in two so it would be 800*600. A
graphics program had to be used, but i don't think anyone will mind
because it was a legitamite reason and  made my picture look worse.


Everything in this image was hand coded except for the geodesic domes and
trees.
The starfield is made up of discs that are white in the middle and 
 blue-ish clear on the outside. This gives fuzzier stars that I think 
look better than straight white dots on black. Everything else is pretty
straightforward. This is the first image i've ever really spent a lot of
time on. Tell me what you think.