TITLE: Surveillance
NAME: Stephen Lumini
COUNTRY: Canada
EMAIL: s_lumini@hotmail.com
WEBPAGE: http://westwood.fortunecity.com/sander/108/
TOPIC: First Encounter
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: surveil.jpg
ZIPFILE: surveil.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Pov-Ray 3.0 for Windows


TOOLS USED: 
    Moray 3.01 for Windows; Paintshop Pro 5 for adding text and for
JPEG-Compression


RENDER TIME: 
    about 2 hours


HARDWARE USED: 
    P90, 40MB RAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

The desk of a CIA agent, as per the letterhead, covered with information
chronicling their first physical encounter with extra terrestrials.  I am not
much of an X-files fan, but I do like some of the ideas. I know that Muldar is
an fbi agent, but I chose the CIA because they are the USA's premier spy
agency;  I thought if anyone would spy on extraterrestrial, it would be them. 
The FBI deals with domestic policy, while the CIA is concerned with external
threats.  As the letter implies, the CIA have captured some ETs.  The scenario
is that the CIA had been keeping the ETs under surveillance, and have decided
that they are not an unmanageable foe.  They have kidnapped 5 of them and plan
to run various tests, using them as hostages if required.
I'm not sure who owns the desk, it might belongs to the person who wrote the
letter or just someone checking out the information.  I included the mug and
photos to represent a family aspect of the person's character.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The desk, lamp, test tubes and blotter are all POV primitives and csgs.  The
photos are bezier patches because photo paper is never completely flat.
The pictures I downloaded from the web, and except for the family ones, those
are my kids. The note is a scanned in hand written one, and the CIA logo came
right from the CIA webpage.
The chain hanging from the lamp is a made of a bunch of small cubes, using
Moray's duplicate feature.

  


