TITLE: In memory of a great discovery NAME: Christof Joswig COUNTRY: Germany EMAIL: martinh@inpetho.de WEBPAGE: www.cottbus-virtuell.de (look at the raytracing page) TOPIC: First Encounter COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT JPGFILE: cjmem.jpg ZIPFILE: cjmem.zip RENDERER USED: POVRay 3.01 for Win95 TOOLS USED: PSP 5, Moray for Win, WinBlob RENDER TIME: about 39 hours HARDWARE USED: Pentium 100 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: error: in the pic I wrote "quit simple and have ..." but it means "quite simple and has ..." Please use a high contrast and brightness to view this image, because the scene is dark. An alien squashs the hand of a man that lies on the floor and bleeds to death. A display lies in a pool of blood. The display shows the story of the arrival of a alien starship. In the background you can find a rifle with a laserpointer and a flashlight. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The hand/arm and the feet are blob objects. Display is a super- ellipsoid with differences and image_maps. The floor is a simple checker texture with a bump_map. The blood consists of prism and color- map. The rifle is a cylinder with a sniper scope, flashlight, laserpointer. Laser is a cylindrical light and the light from the lamp is a spotlight. Atmosphere has a jitter and 25 samples. and special thankz to "M" for uploading my image & code