TITLE: The Arrival NAME: Marius Liebenberg COUNTRY: South Africa EMAIL: numzaan@mailbox.co.za WEBPAGE: none TOPIC: First Encounter COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: ml_arriv.jpg RENDERER USED: POV Ray 3.0 TOOLS USED: Paint Shop Pro for JPEG compression RENDER TIME: 4 hours, 37 min. HARDWARE USED: Pentium 166 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The image presents the meeting of an alien nation with our planet earth and the picture is from the alien point of view. Normally these kind of pictures are from our point of view. The camera is inside one of the UFO_s viewing down onto the rest ahead of it on their way to meet earth. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Earth is a combination of three spheres, the smallest a color map of the land and water, the second largest a color map of the clouds and the largest the misty effect of the atmosphere. The stars is a color map in a sky_sphere. The UFO_s are objects created. I might have given more detail to the UFO_s, but have never seen a real one to know what it should look like. My objective is not to show what a UFO looks like but rather the approach to earth and the size of earth.