TITLE: The Greatest Restaurant Under The Sun Replacement
NAME: Uwe Post
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: up@ct.heise.de
WEBPAGE: http://www.heise.de/ct/Redaktion/up
TOPIC: Great Engineerung Achievements
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: replace2.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray for Windows 3.01

TOOLS USED: 
    lparser, breeze designer

RENDER TIME: 
    25 min

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 233 MMX

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Would you like to visit The Greatest Restaurant Under The Sun
Replacement? Usually, the prices are huge - but today it's happy hour.
And there is light - you don't need a sun, just a 10^26 Watts bulb
and a very long cable.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

When I read about the topic, images came to my mind immediately.
Sorry: no Eiffel tower or Golden Gate Bridge. But elevator to the moon,
bridge across the ocean and -- the sun replacement. Of course all of
you know, that our life-spending sunlight will vanish sometime in the far
future. Of course mankind will be able to replace the sun by a 10^26 W
light bulb. And of course, there will be the Replacement Dome Restaurant.
The light bulb: a blob
The glowing wire: a helix made with lparser and a halo
The cable: made with lparser
The Starship: made with breeze designer
The Restaurant Name: made with simple "rundtext" include file
The Textures: naked code
The Stars: many spheres far away


