EMAIL:  winner@cua.edu
NAME:  Jim Winner
TOPIC:  Science Fiction
COPYRIGHT:  I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED:  POV-Ray 3.0 for Windows (Win95)
TOOLS USED:  Terrain Maker 1.1, POV-Ray CD-ROM object collection
RENDER TIME:  51 minutes (while multitasking)
HARDWARE USED:  P5-75, 32M RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
        A battle rages above the barren moonscape.  Though the defenders
        are putting up a valient effort, a beam has gotten through and
        the base is feeling the heat.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
        I was playing around with various things independantly; looking at
        the object libraries, playing with Terrain Maker, and trying to
        figure out halos.  This image was just a way to throw them all
        together.  The space ships (Federation and Klingon) are from the
        object collections on the POV-Ray CD, and I'm in the process of
        cleaning up the include files to make them pure objects and getting
        rid of the warnings they generate.  A couple of the ships were
        specifically placed for effect, then more were added with random
        attitudes to fill out the sky.  The moon surface was done in Terrain
        Maker, using the "moon" coloring, and then searching the surface for
        a suitable site for the base.  The various explosions are all halos,
        trying to get slightly different effects depending on the nature of
        the explosions.  I had tried to do the lasers as halos also, but in
        the end I couldn't get the effect I wanted so I just made them
        cylinders.

        Some Intel systems I have viewed this image on need to be brightened
        or have gamma increased.  Some don't.