EMAIL: zelonka@globalserve.on.ca
NAME: Ben Zelonka
TOPIC: Science Fiction
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: povray 3.0 MS-DOS
TOOLS USED: TexMagic v.94
RENDER TIME: 24 hours 33 minutes 57 seconds
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133Mhz 16Mb RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
        "Captain's Day Off"
        The Star Ship Enterprise hanging in orbit around an alien world, the
        crew gone on shore leave.  Or maybe it's a surprise party for Captain
        Kirk- can you see Spock's pointed ears as he hides behind a chair?
        Or perhaps the crew has been abducted by an all powerful ethereal
        force, and at this instant Kirk is teaching them the error of their
        ways (or maybe I just didn't feel like rendering the crew;-)).  I
        guess we'll never know (if you vote me into first place I'll tell ya!
:-)).
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
        I think I did a pretty good job of capturing the essence of shoe-string
        special effects: from the cardboard cut-out planet, to the plastic hull
        I've followed my "official" blueprints to the letter.  The Bridge
itself
        was constructed in a circular manner- it's made up of several template
        objects (consoles, panels etc.) assembled by rotating each segment
around
        the center of the structure.  This proved considerably simpler than
trying
        to position each piece in relation to the previous one (which I tried
        first). 
