TITLE: Homesickness
NAME: Jerry Stratton
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: jerry@hoboes.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.hoboes.com/jerry/
TOPIC: Water
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: homesick.jpg
ZIPFILE: homesick.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.1/Object Bounds

TOOLS USED: 
    Mondfarilo

RENDER TIME: 
    4 hours 32 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    Macintosh G3 300

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Teardrops take longer to fall when there is no gravity. In fact,
one might expect this teardrop to stay there forever. It's a good
thing this astronaut has fitted the satellite out to look like
home, because he's likely to be there for a long time.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The central image, the teardrop, was created in Mondfarilo. It's
a basic cubic lathe. The rest was created with various forms of
CSG. The photograph, earth, and moon were created with an image
map. The earth image map is the standard image map that comes
with the POV-Ray distribution. The moon came from NASA's web
site, and the photo tacked on the wall is the only photo I have
an electronic copy of that includes a parent and a child. It was
taken with a Canon ZR.

Most everything else is a CSG of varying complexity.

The text was created within POV, using the 'text' object and Ron
Parker's "Object Bounds" modification--since Ron is currently
working on a 'super-patch' for POV 3.1, I took his POV 3.0 Object
Bounds and modified it to work on 3.1. This made it much easier
to create the "Emergency" plate and the communications display.

The clouds and glow around the Earth, as well as the nuclear
explosions, were created using POV 3.1's "interior media"
feature.

I had a bear of a time getting POV to work with large distance.
Eventually I just centered the universe at the satellite.

(And a note to Mr. F. Fender: "I'll be there before the next
teardrop renders" isn't really saying much.)

Jerry
http://www.hoboes.com/jerry/