August 1995 competition entry: tori.jpg included in this file are README -this file gate.pov - the file containing the vast majority of the scene amgate.pov - gate.pov with increased ambient lighting on the gate, not used in my entry, but it produces a kinda neat effect illgate.pov- the illuminated portion of the gate gate_bg.pov- the background which is seen through the gate tori.inc - the tori gate thing illgate.inc- a chunk of the illgate.pov code which i stuck in an include file so that it would be easier to change illgate.pov in case of a major change. times.txt - the trace times of each image (each image was traced on either an HP715/75 or HP715/80) the way the file was constructed: first the files were traced producing: gate.tga illgate.tga gate_bg.tga then i used a nifty little utility i wrote to combine parts of the images (this should be possible with DTA using the "chromakey" feature), i told my utility that all black areas on illgate.tga were transparent and should be replaced with gate.tga, then i told it that all blue (0 0 255) regions were transparent and should be replaced by gate_bg.tga. other than that: the height field was created using xfractint (a generic plasma with a big rectangle cut out of the center, compliments of xv), the background is a shot from the hubble telescope that i found in http://www.univ-rennes1.fr/ASTRO/astro.english.html i think it's a picture of the orion nebula, but i'm not too sure... hmm... other than that the only thing i can think of is that there's a small problem with the shadows cast by the cloud cylinder in front of the gate (they should be grey as opposed to black) perhaps one day i'll go back and fix that (i would do it right now, but i'm kinda out of time) oh... and the image was gamma corrected using xv3.1 (i used a value of 1.4) BIO: (i know, you don't care, but please, let my ego have it's moment) i'm a student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I'm a sophmore in computer science (ie i know just enough to be dangerous... mainly to myself tho... ;) ). my main interest is in computer graphics, and my web page is at http://eta.cs.wisc.edu/~depe PS i know my web page sucks pretty hard, so please don't remind me...