TITLE: Orbiter

NAME: James Gregson
COUNTRY: Canada

EMAIL: gregson@tuns.ca
TOPIC: Math&Physics (Astro Physics)
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: orbiter.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.0 for Windows as a preview and Povray 3.0 for Linux
as the final renderer.


TOOLS USED: 
    Moray 2.5


RENDER TIME: 
    11 minutes and 31 seconds


HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 90, 16 megs ram, ATI Mach 64 visual card


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    This image is a picture of a sattelite orbiting a
earthlike planet, with one of the earthlike planet's moons of in the
distance.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    My first step was to create the
sattelite. I did this in Moray 2.5 by assembling solid primitives into a
sattellite like object and refining it from there.The planet is just a big
sphere with a layered texture. I used the sky texture in the bicubic patch
demo for the top layer of the texture and then made a green and blue lower
layer. The moon is another sphere with the T_Stone13 texture with a
different finish and bumps. The stars in the background are a modified
version of the Starfield1 pattern in "stars.inc".