TITLE: Hubble
NAME: Jason Glover
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: jason.glover@worldnet.att.net
WEBPAGE: n/a
TOPIC: Great Engineering Achievements
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: hubble.jpg
ZIPFILE: hubble.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-RAY 3.0

TOOLS USED: 
    Paint Shop Pro 3.0, Fractint, Corel Photopaint, CorelDraw

RENDER TIME: 
    1.5 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 200MHz, 32MB Ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is often hailed
as a great achievement of Astronomy and Cosmology, but getting the
thing up there and working properly was a great ENGINEERING achievement!


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    Starfield is a GIF created with
Fractint.  Earth is a blue sphere with several layers of color and pattern
gradients with a "fake" halo.  A real Halo took to long to render and was
too difficult to iterate.  The halo used is simply a plane sliced through 
the center of the earth with an "onion" pattern that fades to black from
the center.  Works and looks way better than a real halo.  I used PSP to
create the file Block.gif, which goes behind the earth and keeps the stars 
from shining through the halo.  I built the HST using Pov's CSG (yes, 
every rivet) and stuck it up there.  I used CorelDraw to make the NASA gif.
Then I used Corel Photopaint for gamma correct and JPG convert.
Not much to it.

