TITLE: From Past to Future
NAME: Theodorich Kopetzky
COUNTRY: Austria
EMAIL: theo@tk.uni-linz.ac.at
WEBPAGE: http://www.tk.uni-linz.ac.at 80/~theo/ray/
TOPIC: Flight
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: tkp2f.jpg
ZIPFILE: tkp2f.zip
RENDERER USED: PovRay 3.00e
TOOLS USED: Moray 2.5 for modeling               Photoshop 3.0 to insert my logo
at the lower left corner
                             of the picture and to make it a little bit 
                             darker.

RENDER TIME: approx. 31 hours
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133 MHz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

The idea behind this picture was to span an arc from the beginnings of
flight (I think I'm pretty close with Leonardo da Vinci) to the future 
(for that I chose a starting space ship).

So I took two ideas of Leonardo, the parachute and the helicopter, and
put them into the waiting room of an space port (where would an exhibition
of the beginnings of flight better fit than there) where you can see a
space ship starting in clouds of dust (yeah, I know, there should not be
so much dust on a heavily used space port but the cleaning company had
off ;). The ship, btw, is the ship of Captain Future as seen in a TV
series shown in Europe in the mid eighties.

And, of course, you can see Leonardo himself.

The strange things on the floor are some lights...


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The picture was modelled using Moray 2.0 and 2.5. I didn't count the
hours but I think for the space ship alone I spent somewhat around 16
hours. 

The dust around the starting ship is composed of spheres
containing emitting halos. I know, there is a dust halo, too. But when I
tried that one, tracing time exploded even for small pictures and I
planned to do an 800x600 picture. Otherwise the small sketches done by
Leonardo would not have been visible. And I think, emitting halos do the
trick quite well and it looks pretty realistic, too (at least to me ;)

The texture of the ship is based on the texture used by Gerald Swanson
<kosh@cloud.com> for the space station Babylon 5 and fits pretty well here,
too.

For those interested, the galaxy in the background is the Andromeda galaxy.

This is my first entry (together with a second picture) for the competition
and I'm pretty new to the field of ray tracing (although I did some stuff
earlier already).

Source:
For those interested I'm providing the source except for the ship. Feel 
free to use it as long as you mention me (except for the pictures used, 
here you can mention Leonardo da Vinci :) and send me an e-mail (maybe with an 
URL, so that I can take a look at your picture).