EMAIL: mark@revcan.ca
NAME: Mark Mintz
TOPIC: Science Fiction
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.0 for DOS
TOOLS USED: POVPad 1.3
RENDER TIME: 3h
HARDWARE USED: IBM Pentium75
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
"The Assassin's Tools"
The image shows some sort of energy weapon sitting in a "travel case" along
with a set of strange boxes (energy clips maybe?) and a shiny disk of
instructions (will it self distruct? :-) )
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
I created it starting with the image of the gun.  I knew what I wanted it to
look like and the sort of background I wanted.  I used superellipseoids for
the shell of the case the gun is in and for the green stuff that it is packed
in as well (thanks for POV 3.0, BTW).  I personally really like the textured
grip above the handle, that sort of tooled, rough look, which I did by 
stringing together a bunch of long thin boxes all turned on their edges and
made into a cross-hatch.
I can't wait to get POV3.0 running on my SGIs...   ;-)