TITLE: "HOME SWEET HOME"
NAME: Marco Bucci
COUNTRY: CANADA
EMAIL: spoonman@cyberdude.com
WEBPAGE: http://pov.home.ml.org
TOPIC: NIGHT
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: robot.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POV RAY 3.0

TOOLS USED: 
    Photoshop 3.0, CROSSROADS 3D, Truespace 2.0, Trees.inc 3.0,
and Pov Ray 3.0


RENDER TIME: 
    About 1 hour

HARDWARE USED: 
    486 with 66 MHz.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

        For the rather "slow", this image takes place on another planet,
and shows a robot of some race standing on his dark planet staring at
what appears to be planet earth.  The thought of the robot at the current
moment are unknown...


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

        I got the idea for the robot from Truespace's sample robot image.
I created my own and saved it, and exported it into povray using
crossroads 3d.  The green ground of the planet is simply a green plane 
which I applied a bump map to.  The texture maps for "Earth" was made
using Photoshop 3.0 by mixing blue and green strips and then I added
a blur-more filter.  A shadowless, fading light was placed near the
planet to light up the bumps and make it more appealing.  The trees were
made using trees.inc which is REALLY helpful.  The "moon" is a stretched
out sphere with a white pigment which is also bumb mapped (no light).
I tried to add the illusion of being on another planet by the ground fog.
I used a distance of 175 I think.

Thank you. 

