TITLE: The End - Microsoft buys POV-Ray NAME: Peter Hertel COUNTRY: Norway EMAIL: peter@hertel.no WEBPAGE: http://hertel.no/bigone TOPIC: Horror COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: theend.jpg ZIPFILE: theend.zip RENDERER USED: POV-Ray for Windows v3.1 TOOLS USED: Paper, pen, PSP 4 RENDER TIME: 22m 9s HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133, 32MB ram IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A man turned on his computer and looked at the first new of Y2K. In despair of the news he tore his mouse into pieces and hung himself. The onscreen text reads: Microsoft buys POV-Ray When Microsoft bought POV-Ray this morning, freeware is history. "Why free when I can earn money with it?" asks Bill Gates. This was worse than any other Y2K bug. (The HTML file is in my include file) DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: This is my first image this complex. I use POV-Ray ONLY, when modelling (and rendering of course). All the models are made by me, and most of them are built up of basic objects. A lot of the things are copies of real things I've got. I'm not very experienced in POV-Ray yet, you can see that on the textures. I've tried to make the source file as easy as possible to understand. Please tell me if my models were useful for you. Actually I wanted to make this image a lot better, but I ran out of time.