EMAIL: ingo@ibm.net
NAME: Ingo Guenther
TOPIC: Science Fiction
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: PoV 3.0 DOS running under OS/2 Warp 3.0
TOOLS USED: Moray 2.0, 3D Studio 2.0, Impos2 2.0
RENDER TIME:  52 hours 13 minutes  57.0 seconds
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 100, 64MB
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
After reading the topic my first idea was that it had to be an alien invasion
scene. I remembered a funny story I read a long time ago, where the invasion is
wrecked because the aliens had totally underestimated the size of anything here
on earth (I think they all were killed by someone stepping onto them, but I'm
not sure). So, here is my variation on this theme. 
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
The final scene was built in Moray 2.0 with objects coming from several
sources:
- The burger, the paper and the basic grass objects were modelled with 3D Studio
2.0.
- The little stones were created with Blob Sculptor for Windows 1.0.
- Everything else was modelled in Moray.
  - The hull SOR was designed by hand and converted to a Moray UDO object by a
little self-written program. 
  - I also used a primitive program that converted the sphere based fully
movable alien arms and legs into blob objects after they were in the correct
position. 
- Bumpmap and heightfield were created by the combination of Corel Draw and
Impos/2.
Except from the house in the background, everything was created for the
contest.

There should have been focal blur and a little bit of atmosphere (looking like
morning haze) in the final render, but after testing this I recognized that it
most probably would have finished two weeks after the contest expired.
My fault, I know...  ...I never get something done in time... ;-)

If anyone is interested in the *.MDL or *.POV sources, please feel free to
contact me. I didn't send them with the picture because of their size.

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SORRY - I uploaded the JPG file as ASCII first time. Here's the correct one.
Please delete mishap.jpg and mishap.txt, Thanks!
Sorry for the inconviniences...
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