EMAIL: kto@eleceng.adelaide.edu.au
NAME: Kiet To
TOPIC: Science Fiction
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: Window POV-Ray 3.0
TOOLS USED: Fractint 19.2, HF-Lab 0.8
RENDER TIME: 34 mins 57 sec
HARDWARE USED: Cyrix 6x86-100Mhz
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
A city ("more like a town") located somewhere in a distance star system 
on a planet similar to earth.

I started this picture three days ago (before the end of the competition).
So I didn't have very much time to do anything great. It's not as complete
as how I imagined it to be but then again, it more then what I thought 
I could do in that short time.

*Sigh* Time just past when you are have fun.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
As with the last picture, my main modeller was a piece of paper, a pencil,
a good editor and as much imagination that I could pull out of overworked 
brain. This was also the first time I have used WinPov (MS-DOS in previous
trace) and I found that it had a brilliant interface. Don't know how I 
ever lived without it.

The first thing I worked on was the background seen, this involved
pulling out some of my old never-completed-povray-scene file and extracting
a few bits such as the sky and moon. The starfield I generated again using 
Fractint to get a more dense star-map the previous used. Next I when in 
search for a good tool to create heightfield mountains. HF-LAB prove to be
excellent (highly recommended). After a day's night fiddling with this
to get two heightfields (one for background and one for foreground), I 
started on the trees. I just created some basic trees (made up of a few
primitives) and placed them randomly in a group. Next was the individual 
building (six in all) and then the star ship (only had time to create 
two only). 

Well, I don't have very much time till the deadline so I think I'll stop
here. I won't include the source file here this time since I don't have
time to organise it. So, if you are interested, please contact me (via 
email) and I'll sent it to you.

K.T.