TITLE: Surveillance NAME: Stephen Lumini COUNTRY: Canada EMAIL: s_lumini@hotmail.com WEBPAGE: http://westwood.fortunecity.com/sander/108/ TOPIC: First Encounter COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: surveil.jpg ZIPFILE: surveil.zip RENDERER USED: Pov-Ray 3.0 for Windows TOOLS USED: Moray 3.01 for Windows; Paintshop Pro 5 for adding text and for JPEG-Compression RENDER TIME: about 2 hours HARDWARE USED: P90, 40MB RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The desk of a CIA agent, as per the letterhead, covered with information chronicling their first physical encounter with extra terrestrials. I am not much of an X-files fan, but I do like some of the ideas. I know that Muldar is an fbi agent, but I chose the CIA because they are the USA's premier spy agency; I thought if anyone would spy on extraterrestrial, it would be them. The FBI deals with domestic policy, while the CIA is concerned with external threats. As the letter implies, the CIA have captured some ETs. The scenario is that the CIA had been keeping the ETs under surveillance, and have decided that they are not an unmanageable foe. They have kidnapped 5 of them and plan to run various tests, using them as hostages if required. I'm not sure who owns the desk, it might belongs to the person who wrote the letter or just someone checking out the information. I included the mug and photos to represent a family aspect of the person's character. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The desk, lamp, test tubes and blotter are all POV primitives and csgs. The photos are bezier patches because photo paper is never completely flat. The pictures I downloaded from the web, and except for the family ones, those are my kids. The note is a scanned in hand written one, and the CIA logo came right from the CIA webpage. The chain hanging from the lamp is a made of a bunch of small cubes, using Moray's duplicate feature.