TITLE: Exploring Alien Ruins
NAME: Tim Bocek
COUNTRY: United States of America
EMAIL: orkybash@jetcity.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.jetcity.com/~kbocek
TOPIC: Ruins
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: tbalruin.jpg
ZIPFILE: tbalruin.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Pov Ray for Windows

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray for Windows, Nathan Kopp Lense Flare Plugin

RENDER TIME: 
    4 hours, 20 minutes 17 seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium III/450 mz, 64 mb ram, high color display

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

A spaceship exploring the ruins of a long-dead alien civilization.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Most of the image is primitives.  The ruins are made up of torri and cylinders,
the ship is composed of superquadrics and tapering sweeps.  A simple fog is
used to create the nebula effect.  The stars are mapped onto a sphere that
enompasses the scene.  I would have used the Galaxy plugin, but support for
that was dropped in Moray 3.2 :(  And of course, the flares from the engine
lights are created with the Nathan Kopp flare plugin.