EMAIL: jethro@caninet.com
NAME: Roy C. Holierhoek
TOPIC: Science Fiction
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray Ver 2.2.imbicb
TOOLS USED: Paintshop-Pro
RENDER TIME: 96+ Hours
HARDWARE USED: IBM PC 486 DX-33MHZ VLB
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
This is a picture of a 2 green aliens in their highly reflective UFO, landing
on their floating landing pad. This is an enitrely waterscaped world, with a
green sky, and purplish clouds. The homes are large domes, that are half
submerged beneath the water surface. Homes are connected in pairs, and share a
landing pad(and UFO), all connected by red metallic cylidnrical walkways.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
This image was created using POV-Ray 2.2 entirely, with no imaging tools,
modellers, or even graph paper. All pigments used are single colours, except
for the sky which is a BOZO colour map, and the landing pad, which is an Image
Map drawn with Paintshop Pro.

The UFO is a series of differences performed on a sphere. To create the bottom
of the UFO(which can't be seen), a block was created with a difference of cones
for the Landing jet, and a difference between another block an 2 spheres to cut
away a section for the frame of the UFO. This block was then differenced to the
body of the UFO. Another box was differenced, to cut out the control area, with
a sphere just slightly smalled than the UFO itself, for the window. The landing
pods are just a two cylinders rotated into three different positions. The body
of the UFO is just a squished(Y-scaled down)sphere, and torus.

*The aliens are just a sphere for the body, a cylinder and sphere for attenae,
and two black spheres for arms.
*The landing pad is composed of a block for the landing pad itself, and four
spheres and four cylinders to create the floater for the pad.
*The walkway is just three vertical cylinders, two horizontal cylinders, and
five spheres(at all corners, and the end above the homes).
*The homes are just a couple spheres of various sizes, the smallest being
connected to the walkway.
*The sky is a just large sphere.
*The water is two planes, the upper one being mostly transparent, and the lower
being soild, and the same colour as the upper.

The picture was rendered with:
povray +iUFO.POV +oUFO.TGA +fT +w1024 +h768 +q9 +a0.1 +r4
The actual rendering time is unkown since it was done a bit at a time, over
several nights, and running in the background, while doing other things.