TITLE: I.S.S. Beer
NAME: Paul Hope
COUNTRY: Cyprus
EMAIL: groovejetduo@yahoo.co.uk
WEBPAGE: None
TOPIC: Catastrophe
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: issbeer.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Vue d'Esprit 2 (FREE with cover disc of PC Format magazine Aug
2001)

TOOLS USED: 
    Anim8or-for creating more complex models (FREE from
www.anim8or.com)
            MicroGrafx Picture Publisher-for making textures (Bundled FREE with
Plustek scanner)
            Crossroads-for importing/exporting
models(www.freewarehome.com/Graphics/3D_Graphics_t.html)

RENDER TIME: 
    25h 18m 31s

HARDWARE USED: 
    Cyrix 300 Mhz 128Mb RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

A few years in the future and the International Space Station has become a
beacon of international co-operation. The I.S.A. has been formed and new
modules are starting to be added. A new smaller Orbiter has been developed that
can move cargo and crew to and from the I.S.S. more often. Unfortunately during
a routine delivery, the cargo pod containing the beer, has broken loose and
drifted off into space...

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The space staion was made mostly with Vue primitives, using a picture from the
ISS website as a reference. More complicated models (Orbiter, hexagons, etc)
were made in Anim8or and exported through Crossroads. The ISA logo and
"Carlsborg" textures were made in MSWord and prntscrn-ed into Micrografix, then
used as jpg textures. The pilot's heads are Anim8tor spline objects and the
space-suit figure is a combination of Vue primitives and Anim8tor shapes I
made. The globe had to be a squashed sphere very far below the main objects to
get the curvature of the earth and to stop shadows of the objects appearing,
which obviously wouldn't be seen in real life.

