EMAIL: miroslav.hundak@fer.hr NAME: Miroslav Hundak TOPIC: Science Fiction COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.0 for Windows TOOLS USED: RENDER TIME: around 5 hours HARDWARE USED: Pentium-100, 16 MB RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The year is 2352. People have fought many wars among themselves during the "transition period", over many disputes characteristic to human race, and eventually got scattered away on many planets in nearby habitable solar systems, with shortage of food and planty of minerals and alloys, except for those few lucky worlds that had the atmosphere and geosphere good enought for genetically improved plants to grow. Many worlds and poeple were starving, because after the wars, the trade was poor and rare. And when pople are hungry, they are unhappy. And when people are unhappy, the government is unhappy. And when government is unhappy it sends unhappy people to war. Why? The wars are very good solution for government that has unhappy citizens, because the war stimulates economy, industry, and generally makes people very busy. But it also get's people killed. Therefore, the humans from the ancient world known as Earth, who posesed the most advanced technologies, deviced multipurpose robots, mainly used for destruction and obliteration of the enemy forces and structures. In this image you can see three of these killer machines, two of them in action, and one of them fircly looking at you, trying to make up its mind. They were deployed on planet known as Darelay, in order to destroy enemy's supply lines, but what mayhem they did nobody will ever know. In the background you can see some sort of a castle, the usual type of building on the Darelay, where people have a taste for medival architecture. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: It all started with a mathematical representation of connected spine elements. Gradually I added more and more things on the spine, like: ribs, hands (all four of them), weapons, tail, legs, and in the end a head. After that I went on to the making of the scene. I put three bots, two in the distance, in action, shooting at something, and one in the front as a center-piece of the whole story. In the background I put a hibrid sky-sphere, then some height-fields, and finally some towers and walls that I made long time ago for a castle that was never made. I tried to make the scene and objects look as good as possible, but using only the pencil, paper, and ofcourse POV-Ray 3.0 for Windows left me with simple objects, and I kept them that way. Even though every part of the bot can be improved and made better, I didn't do it because I had no time for perfection.