EMAIL:swl7m@virginia.edu NAME:Stephen Lavedas TOPIC:Science Fiction COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. RENDERER USED:Povray 3 TOOLS USED:Povlab 4 beta 10 RENDER TIME:unknown HARDWARE USED:6x86 166+ w/32mgs IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This is my idea of what one might see as they approach either light speed, or a time warp (sorta related) the middle is the event horizon approaching and appearing to distort space-time. I assume that as we approach light speed, we would see more light as we accelerate toward stars etc, accounting for the bright center and the distortion along the sides DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Everything was modeled in Povlab. the tori are gold, the cylinders on the outside are brushed aluminum, everything is contained in a large cylinger with a fire pattern as a background. The distortion in the center is a hemisphere of glass and the blue pattern behind it is a sphere with the texture electricity. Another cylinder surrounds the glass comes back past the camera with the texture lightning2. Placing the light between the camera and the hemisphere creates the bright spot in the middle. Around the outside edge are boxes placed just for effect textured in silver. Ellipses with the texture electricity are placed at random junctures between tori and cylinders