EMAIL: tglover@nettally.com NAME: Tim Glover TOPIC: First Encounter COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Cosmic Dash Board Lights COUNTRY: USA WEBPAGE: none RENDERER USED: Pov Ray 3.02 for windows, watcom version optimized for pentiums TOOLS USED: Moray 3.01 for windows, build 2483; Rhino RENDER TIME: 17 Sec parse, 11 min 44 sec render AA enabled 0.01 HARDWARE USED: 233 mhtz Pentium with 64 Mbytes ram win 95 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: One of the first comments I saw on the irtc mailing list after this topic was announced was, "Oh great, now there will be hundreds of 'I Saw Heaven by the Dashboard Lights'" (by Meatloaf). Well, here's one of 'em. The Eastern symbols of Yin and Yang (Westernized with symbolic colors of blue and pink) tentatively touch, their explorations illuminated by galactic lights. Each half, exhibiting both traditional male and female characteristics, relish, yet fear, the first contact. (Alternative description for those who just gotta have spaceships: Through an enigmatic parallel evolution, two star voyagers discover themselves facing an exact replica of their own "unique" craft. Will the occupants also be exact replicas or completely different?) DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The symbol was created in Rhino, then exported into Moray. Placement, lighting and textures were created in Moray. Once lighting and composition was roughed in, an Chris Colefax's Galaxy include file was added in. Final tweaking was by hand on the .pov file in the povray editor.