EMAIL: miroslav.hundak@fer.hr
NAME: Miroslav Hundak
TOPIC: Science Fiction
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.0 for Windows
TOOLS USED:
RENDER TIME: around 5 hours
HARDWARE USED: Pentium-100, 16 MB RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

The year is 2352. People have fought many wars among themselves 
during the "transition period", over many disputes characteristic to human 
race, and eventually got scattered away on many planets in nearby habitable 
solar systems, with shortage of food and planty of minerals and alloys,
except for those few lucky worlds that had the atmosphere and geosphere good
enought for genetically improved plants to grow. Many worlds and poeple were
starving, because after the wars, the trade was poor and rare. And when
pople are hungry, they are unhappy. And when people are unhappy, the
government is unhappy. And when government is unhappy it sends unhappy
people to war. Why? The wars are very good solution for government that has
unhappy citizens, because the war stimulates economy, industry, and
generally makes people very busy. But it also get's people killed.
Therefore, the humans from the ancient world known as Earth, who posesed the
most advanced technologies, deviced multipurpose robots, mainly used for
destruction and obliteration of the enemy forces and structures.
In this image you can see three of these killer machines, two of them in
action, and one of them fircly looking at you, trying to make up its mind.
They were deployed on planet known as Darelay, in order to destroy enemy's
supply lines, but what mayhem they did nobody will ever know. In the
background you can see some sort of a castle, the usual type of building on
the Darelay, where people have a taste for medival architecture.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

It all started with a mathematical representation of connected spine
elements. Gradually I added more and more things on the spine, like: ribs,
hands (all four of them), weapons, tail, legs, and in the end a head. After
that I went on to the making of the scene. I put three bots, two in the
distance, in action, shooting at something, and one in the front as a
center-piece of the whole story. In the background I put a hibrid
sky-sphere, then some height-fields, and finally some towers and walls that
I made long time ago for a castle that was never made.
I tried to make the scene and objects look as good as possible, but using only
the pencil, paper, and ofcourse POV-Ray 3.0 for Windows left me with simple
objects, and I kept them that way. Even though every part of the bot can be
improved and made better, I didn't do it because I had no time for perfection.