TITLE: moontv
NAME: Shaun Conrardy
EMAIL: conrardy@sprynet.com
TOPIC: Flight
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION
JPGFILE: moontv.jpg
RENDERER USED: POVRAY 3.0
TOOLS USED: Breeze 2.0             Blob Sculptor 2.0
             Terrain Maker 1.1
             Jason Widdy's Star Field Simulator

RENDER TIME: 15 minutes
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 100 (40MB RAM)
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
     "What are those stupid humans up to now?"
     This is just a fun scene inspired by my fiancee.  Two aliens
are lounging around on the moon watching the humans and their
flying machines on TV.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
     I must have went through about 20 rough pencil sketches before
I came up with a concept that "looked right."  The aliens were made
with blob sculptor and imported in to Breeze.  The height field was
choked out of Terrain Maker (we don't get along too well).  Everything
else is made from primitives, except the TV screen.  I used a Bezier
Patch to get the screen curve (which you can't really see in the final
picture.  *sigh*).  I used a 2x2 area light to simulate light coming
from the TV screen, but again, it's not too noticeable.  The earth
map is courtesy of James Hastings-Trew, as is the cloud map.  I used
the suggestions on the web site I got them from, but the clouds 
just didn't show up very well.  There's nothing exceptionally clever
about what I did, so I didn't include the source files.  If you'd
like them, drop me an e-mail and I'd be happy to send them to you.

