EMAIL: SMEACOCK@superscape.com
NAME: Simon Meacock
TOPIC: Science fiction
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: TrueSpace 2.01a 
TOOLS USED: Paint shop pro 4 
RENDER TIME: 39 minutes
HARDWARE USED: DX2/66 16Mb

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

The space ship started life as a POVRAY model which I converted to 
Truespace 'by hand' as an exercise when I first started using 
Truespace. The background is a hubble telescope image that has been
cropped, rotated and blurred.

The ship itself is a simple collection of spheres, cylinders and 
cones with a bump mapped shiny texture.

I have included the scene file from Truespace.

This can be regarded as an example of how an image don't have to be 
complex or take hours to render to look good (my opinion).