TITLE: Thacher in Space
NAME: Casey Maloney Rosales Muller
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: cmuller@thacher.org
WEBPAGE: http://www.thacher.org/cmuller/
TOPIC: School
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: thacher.jpg
ZIPFILE: thacher.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray

TOOLS USED: 
    Fractint, Photoshop

RENDER TIME: 
    Some minutes. Under an hour.

HARDWARE USED: 
    P133 w/ Win 95 for final and some work, 586-166 and some wierd
Mac for conception.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    My current school (The Thacher School in Ojai, CA), taken
into the future. A space probe (with Thacher's logo on it) orbits a watery
planet with odd cloud and land formations. Behind it the sun flares and above
it floats a barren moon.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Fairly straight-forward. Thacher's logo was readily available, the starmap was
created in Fractint (based on a plasma) with very low density, high clustering
and high dim-to-bright ratio. It was mapped onto a plane in the background. The
surface of the planet is a color map. Added final words and changed to jpeg
with Photoshop.

Couple of notes: Yes, I did create this image just for this submission. I didn't
just slap a seal on a space probe, I made it from scratch. This is perhaps my
first full image that I've done to completion with POV-Ray, and I love it as
compared to TrueSpace or RayDream.