EMAIL: lpurple@netcom.com
NAME: Lance Purple
TOPIC: Science Fiction
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: POV 3.0 for Windows 95
TOOLS USED: paper/pencil only
RENDER TIME: about 2 hours
HARDWARE USED: 486 DX66
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
A high blue crystal throne overlooking a shattered moon.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
At first, I wanted to re-create a Frank R. Paul painting,
showing a city on Callisto with a big Jupiter above, and
blue-skinned people swimming around a giant fountain, etc.
By the start of October, I rejected this as too ambitious
and unoriginal. I had put together a nice-looking Jupiter
model, though.

I was reading the newsgroup, and saw a post asking about
how to use some paint program's "crystallize" filter. It
occurred to me that it'd be really cool if there was some
filter for POV to make 3d objects look like they were made
of crystal.  Coincidentally, the radio was playing an old
70's song "Crystal Blue Persuasion".  The sign was obvious.
I started manually converting a Windsor chair model I had,
into a crystalline throne, and it looked extremely cool.

The rest of the scene just sort of came together after that.
I came up the shattered moon at the last minute because the
rest of the scene was almost perfected, but Jupiter was just
too garish looking. I never did figure out how to fix the
stray ring artifact on the stones around the plasma lamp...