TITLE: Farewell to the cradle
NAME: Josh English
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
EMAIL: english@spiritone.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.spiritone.com/~english/gallery/index.html
TOPIC: Future
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: jecradle.jpg
ZIPFILE: jecradle.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    Poser 2.0, Python, Explode.inc, lens.inc

RENDER TIME: 
    48 min 21 sec at 1600*1200, plus 2.5 hours for the monitor images

HARDWARE USED: 
    iMac 233 MHz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

In the Babylon 5 episode "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" we see the last
human watching the Sun give up the ghost. That is the inspiration for these
last two humans watching our sun go kaplooey.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

There are six monitors in this scene, five of which have the results of other
POV-Ray files. I used Chris Colefax's explode.inc and lens.inc files in the
main image and in some of the monitor images.
The two people were created in Poser 2 and exported to Wavefront's OBJ format,
which I converted with a Python script.
The interior textures are done with negative colors and specular highlighting.