TITLE: last visitor on solaris NAME: thomas jourdan COUNTRY: germany EMAIL: strom.ausfall@t-online.de WEBPAGE: home.t-online.de/home/strom.ausfall TOPIC: ruins COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: solaris.jpg ZIPFILE: solaris.zip RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1 TOOLS USED: gimp, Moray 3.2 Beta, sPatch 1.5, 3DWinOGL V3.5 RENDER TIME: 50 min HARDWARE USED: AMD K6-400 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This picture is inspired by the stalker, an film from Andrey Tarkowskij, base on a novel from Arkadi and Boris Strugatzki. Another source is Stanislaw Lems book Solaris. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The rusty textures are image maps shot with Sony Marvica digtal camera. I made these pictures tilable using the 'make seamless' filter in gimp. The black face on the goden plate ist createte with an genetic algorithm. The rest of the textures are standart pov examples. 3D modeling was done with with a Beta Version of Moray and sPatch. Image format converting and whatersign is done with gimp.