TITLE: The Arrival
NAME: Marius Liebenberg
COUNTRY: South Africa
EMAIL: numzaan@mailbox.co.za
WEBPAGE: none
TOPIC: First Encounter
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: ml_arriv.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POV Ray 3.0

TOOLS USED: 
    Paint Shop Pro for JPEG compression

RENDER TIME: 
    4 hours, 37 min.


HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 166


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

The image presents the meeting of an alien nation with our planet earth and the
picture is 
from the alien point of view. Normally these kind of pictures are from our point
of view. 
The camera is inside one of the UFO_s viewing down onto the rest ahead of it on
their way 
to meet earth.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Earth is a combination of three spheres, the smallest a color map of the land
and water, 
the second largest a color map of the clouds and the largest the misty effect of
the 
atmosphere. The stars is a color map in a sky_sphere. The UFO_s are objects
created. I 
might have given more detail to the UFO_s, but have never seen a real one to
know what 
it should look like. My objective is not to show what a UFO looks like but
rather the 
approach to earth and the size of earth.