Title:          St-Spiff2, Spiff on the planet Ahnooie-4
Artist:         Stig M. Valstad, J›s†s, N-7620 Skogn, Norway
                stigv@interlink.no

Hardware:
  Computer:     486DX2-66, 8MB RAM

Software:
  Renderer:     Polyray v. 1.8
  Image Editor: Picture Publisher v. 5.0
  Heightfield
    conversion: Dem2Pov v. 1.1c
  Text Editor:  Q v. 3.0

Rendering time: 35m 21s

Files:          stspiff2.txt; this file
                stspiff2.jpg; the image
                stspiff.arj; the stspiff2.pi and stspiff1.pi file,
                dash.gif dashboard image, and stars.gif background

The incredible spaceman Spiff, interplanetary explorer extraordinaire
is copyright Bill Watterson.

This rendering was initially made using Polyray v1.7. I downloaded
Polyray v1.8 the same day I finished the scene, and found a new command
that would make the image better. Removing the no_shadow in the second
light declaration makes the scene file renderable on v1.7.

The entire .pi file is hand-coded, and should be easy to read.

The height_field is made from a DEM file and is a part of Grand Canyon
turned upside down (it looked more like the alien landscapes in Calvin
and hobbes that way). The DEM file was converted to TGA format with
Dem2Pov made by Bill Kirby. I have not included gcanyon1.tga because
of its size of 1 MB.

Apart from the special use of height field, the scene file is very simple.
Spiff's spaceship is just a csg construct of simple primitives plus an
image map made in Picture Publisher for the dashboard.

Where is Spiff himself, you may ask. Well he just ran out of the picture
to the right. Always running around that kid.