TITLE: Globe City
NAME: Thomas de Groot
COUNTRY: The Netherlands
EMAIL: t.degroot@inter.nl.net (home) or
WEBPAGE: none
TOPIC: UNBELIEVABLE
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: tg_globe.jpg
ZIPFILE: tg_globe.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1e

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray 3.1 (Lutz+Kretschmar GbR); Terrain Maker

RENDER TIME: 
    9 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    Compaq Presario/Pentium1, Windows98(tests of elements), and
Dell/Pentium2, WindowsNT (final rendering)


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

On a distant, nameless planet with three moons, the famous architect Xy,
presents the completion of the first Globe City for the new colonists, freshly
arrived from Zyx. Yx, the expedition's commander is stunned. "Unbelievable!" he
cries out as he discovers the city from the viewing platform for the first
time. "How did you do that? How do you make those energy units orbit the city?
I never saw such a thing in my life, by Xyz!" The architect looks smug. "That's
the secret of my trade", he purrs. "They will orbit forever, at least till the
sun goes nova. In the meantime, the settlers will have plenty of energy. You
may inform the Emperor - may he live till the heat death of the universe - that
the way is now open for colonizing the galaxy. Overpopulation is history from
now on."
The original idea of the Globe City was inspired by the cover from the book
"Best SF Stories of New Worlds 3", edited by Michael Moorcock and published as
paperback by Medallion Books, New York, in 1971.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The scene was created in MORAY 3.1 and rendered in POV-Ray 3.1e. The landscape
was made with Terrain Maker. The scene makes use of a Scattering Media.
The figures were also created in MORAY 3.1, using the Inverse Kinematic features
of the program.