TITLE: Links NAME: Tekno Frannansa COUNTRY: UK EMAIL: tek@evilsuperbrain.com WEBPAGE: http://www.evilsuperbrain.com TOPIC: Worlds Within Worlds COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: links.jpg ZIPFILE: links.zip RENDERER USED: POV-Ray for Windows v3.5 beta 11 TOOLS USED: POV-Ray editor Paint Shop Pro 5&6 RENDER TIME: 3 days approx. HARDWARE USED: PentiumIII 550MHz 256MB RAM (top portion of image) PentiumIII 800MHz 512MB RAM (bottom portion of image) IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A rather literal and rather surreal interpretation of the term "worlds within worlds": A series of small ring shaped planets linked together, so that each passes inside the next. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I came up with this idea one lunchtime at work, half-way through the competition period. I played around with it a little, and within 30 minutes had the basic planet-chain objects that form the main part of the picture. I then added an atmosphere and some textures and the result looked much like what you see here, after less than 2 hours work! I hadn't planned on doing this image, because I was already working on a picture for this round (title: "The Wardrobe"). But after getting such a nice result I found it impossible to resist. I added some distant trees and buildings, and put the grass and spaceship in the foreground. Thanks to Dearmad for pointing out the "sci-fi art" look of the picture on the pov newsgroups, which lead to me putting in the spaceship :) Time constraints of working on 2 images, and working lots of overtime at my day job, meant that there isn't as much detail in this scene as I would have liked, but I'm still very happy with the scene as it is.