EMAIL: s.davis@lancaster.ac.uk
NAME: Simon Davis
TOPIC: Night
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Observatory
COUNTRY: UK
WEBPAGE: -

RENDERER USED: Povray 3.02 for Windows
TOOLS USED: Moray for Windows, TreeDesigner beta3 (Johannes Hubert -
http://www.algonet.se/~jhubert/TreeDesigner/), PaintShop Pro 5 (for treating moon 
image map and final conversion to jpeg)
RENDER TIME: ~20mins

HARDWARE USED: Pentium 233MMX Laptop, 32Mb ram, 2Mb video, 512Kb cache

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
An observatory with ground mist and a starry sky.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
A first submission to the IRTC and even by those standards it leaves plenty to be desired.
I wanted to create a scene with a shaft of red light emerging from the open dome in the mist
and a haloed moon in the sky. The observatory is spotlit by two ground lights and there's a 
bluish light in the background to suggest a distant city. The tree is the sample provided 
with Johannes Hubert's TreeDesigner, exported into a UDO file and imported into Moray 3. I
didn't get the effect I wanted and am still in the early stages of using Povray. If anyone
can advise me on using fog, mist and atmosphere in Moray 3 to get those shafts of light I
would be grateful.