EMAIL: zelonka@globalserve.on.ca NAME: Ben Zelonka TOPIC: Science Fiction COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. RENDERER USED: povray 3.0 MS-DOS TOOLS USED: TexMagic v.94 RENDER TIME: 24 hours 33 minutes 57 seconds HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133Mhz 16Mb RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: "Captain's Day Off" The Star Ship Enterprise hanging in orbit around an alien world, the crew gone on shore leave. Or maybe it's a surprise party for Captain Kirk- can you see Spock's pointed ears as he hides behind a chair? Or perhaps the crew has been abducted by an all powerful ethereal force, and at this instant Kirk is teaching them the error of their ways (or maybe I just didn't feel like rendering the crew;-)). I guess we'll never know (if you vote me into first place I'll tell ya! :-)). DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I think I did a pretty good job of capturing the essence of shoe-string special effects: from the cardboard cut-out planet, to the plastic hull I've followed my "official" blueprints to the letter. The Bridge itself was constructed in a circular manner- it's made up of several template objects (consoles, panels etc.) assembled by rotating each segment around the center of the structure. This proved considerably simpler than trying to position each piece in relation to the previous one (which I tried first).