TITLE: If only
NAME: Henry Bush
COUNTRY: UK
EMAIL: henry@unforgettable.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~hjsb196/
TOPIC: Loneliness
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: ifonly.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.5 for Windows


TOOLS USED: 
    Moray
         Paint Shop Pro 4 for JPG conversion, creation of screen images.


RENDER TIME: 
    Hmm. Not sure, sorry. Think it was about 5 hours or so.


HARDWARE USED: 
    Athlon 650 running at 682MHz, 512Mb, Windows XP with 3Gb swapfile
(peak memory usage was about 400Mb I think)
        

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

An astronaut, stuck up in the claustrophobic enormity of a malfunctioning space
vehicle, dreams of being somewhere, anywhere on the inhabited planet below.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


I'm sorry, this image was a complete rush. I only spent about a week of the two
months doing it, and I don't like it much, to be honest. But it'd be rude not
to submit it.

I did the whole thing in Moray, which is new to me: I've always just used it as
a modelling tool, and done the final trace in the midst of the povray code.
That's the reason I've not included source code. If anyone wants it anyway, I'd
be happy to email it.

As far as inside the ship is concerned, there's nothing difficult: a single red
light, to give the idea of danger, simple primitives (including image mapped
screens), and a brushed chrome texture that I was quite proud of.

Outside, we have the planets. Well, one planet, which is image mapped with a map
of the earth, and it's satellite, which is image mapped with a map of the moon.
The glow round the earth is not very good: just done using two glowing,
translucent spheres.

Oh, and finally the sun. The lens flare is created using the lens flare plugin
of Moray, but the sun is actually not visible: if I made it visible through the
window, the planets weren't illuminated enough. So I moved it, and put a dummy
light in to create the lens flare.

