TITLE: Martians are coming
NAME: Chris Bunker
COUNTRY: UK
EMAIL: timbunker@eclipse.co.uk
TOPIC: first encounter
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: martian.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Stratavision 3d v.4

TOOLS USED: 
    Extreme 3d

RENDER TIME: 
    2 hours 25 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
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IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


The war of the worlds was one of the first books that delt with the
possibility coming face to face with extraterrestrials, the first
(literary) encounter with first encounter (of extraterestrials), so it
seemed on topic to base by entry around it . Any physical encounter
between humanity and extraterrestrials is almost certianly going to
happen within the solar system, and Mars still seems as good a bet as it
was in Well's day . However it is most probably going to be some kind of
micro organism if we do find anything . In the book there where no
bacteria on Mars, having been wiped out by the advanced tecknolgy of the
Martians, leaving them with no defences against earth born germs . So I
placed an exerpt from War of the Worlds that discribed the Martians
along side a Martian micro organism, based on that passage, hiding
amongst the dust of a Martian soil sample . Trying to show the way the
view of a first encounter with extraterrestrials has changed in the last
hundred years, the image evolved from there .


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The background was rendered first, then guasian blur applied to the
entire image to make it look out of focus, this was then reimported as a
background and the main image rendered on to of it . The text is an
actual exerpt from War of the Worlds, downloaded from Project Gutenburg
" www.promo.net/pg/ ", by H G Wells, the book now being out of copywrite
becouse of its age.