TITLE: Cassini Rendezvous with Saturn
NAME: Blane Bizzaro
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: blane2100@yahoo.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.bizzarocreations.com/
TOPIC: The Future "Any vision of something that has not yet happened."
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: cass_sat.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray for Windows 3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    TrueSpace 5, Moray, 3Dwin File Coverter.

RENDER TIME: 
    Aproximately 7 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    Celeron 600/128MB ram, ATI all-in-wonder graphics card.


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Cassini-Huygens spacecraft in orbit around Saturn. Scheduled Saturn orbit 
insertion; July 2004. The grainy appearance of the metallic surface of the
spacecraft is probably due to the reflection of "particles" (high crand value)
in Saturn's rings. The constellation Orion is partially visible in the lower 
right-hand corner.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The spacecraft was modeled in TrueSpace 5. The model was then exported from
TrueSpace to .DXF. Screen shots of the model in progress can be seen at 
http://www.bizzarocreations.com/raytracing.html/ (bottom of page), it is fairly
detailed.

The model was converted to .MDL (Moray Modeler format) using Thomas Baier's
3DWin File Converter. http://www.tb-software.com/

Using Moray for Windows wireframe modeler for POVRAY
(http://www.stmuc.com/moray/),
I created the Saturn texture and its' rings texture. The two moons in the
background are
simple spheres with simple Povray textures. The starfield was created by
image-mapping a
couple different Nasa photos onto a Z plane (Y plane in Moray).

Once I had created my Saturn system, I imported the Cassini .MDL into the scene,
assigned
colors and textures to the various elements of the model, did some
arranging of the positions of all the objects in the scene to my liking, then
rendered it
with Povray for Win 3.1