TITLE: HST (Hubble Space Telescope) NAME: Jason Glover COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: jason.glover@worldnet.att.net WEBPAGE: n/a TOPIC: Great Engineering Achievements COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: hst.jpg ZIPFILE: hst.zip RENDERER USED: POV-RAY 3.0 TOOLS USED: Paint Shop Pro 3.0, Fractint, Corel Photopaint, CorelDraw RENDER TIME: 3 hours HARDWARE USED: Pent200 32MB RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is often hailed as a great achievement of Astronomy and Cosmology, but getting the thing up there and working properly was a great ENGINEERING achievement! DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Starfield is a GIF created with Fractint. Earth is a blue sphere with several layers of color and pattern gradients with a "fake" halo. A real Halo took to long to render and was too difficult to iterate. The halo used is simply a plane sliced through the center of the earth with an "onion" pattern that fades to black from the center. Works and looks way better than a real halo. I built the HST using Pov's CSG (yes, every rivet) and stuck it up there. I used CorelDraw to make the NASA gif. Then I used Corel Photopaint for JPG convert. The HST is backlit, with earth behind the camera. An area light between the earth and the HST provides the blue ambient lighting.