EMAIL: myra0002@gold.tc.umn.edu
NAME: Rod Myran
TOPIC: Science Fiction
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer Version 3.0
TOOLS USED: Paint Shop Pro
RENDER TIME: 1 hour 50 minutes
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:  
Jibber the pilot of my spaceship is wandering around in space when he notices he
is by 
the planet Gretty and it's moon.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
I started this project thinking about how to create a realistic looking doll
(Jibber), but I 
soon found out that after about 16,000 lines of code that the image was going to
be so 
small that it would not show all the detail.  I spent a lot of time on his hands
and hair.  
His hands are made of multiple blob objects and his hair is made of about 350
cut up 
torus objects randomly rotated to give the effect of real hair.

The space ship was a challenge, I started out by making a blob object for the
hull and 
then giving the hull a metallic look with an image map that I found on the
internet.  I had 
the most trouble creating the light on the ends of the wings I could not figure
out how 
to make them look like a light for the longest time, but then it dawned on me
that a Halo 
is the solution.  

The planet Gretty is a sphere with cylinders around it (for the rings).  
Gretty's moon is 
a image map pasted on a sphere.  The image map that I used is an actual picture
of the 
earth's moon.