TITLE: Exploring Alien Ruins
NAME: Tim Bocek
COUNTRY: United States of America
EMAIL: orkybash@jetcity.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.jetcity.com/~kbocek
TOPIC: Ruins
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: Pov Ray for Windows
TOOLS USED: Moray for Windows, Nathan Kopp Lense Flare Plugin
RENDER TIME: 4 hours, 20 minutes 17 seconds
HARDWARE USED: Pentium III/450 mz, 64 mb ram, high color display 
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
A spaceship exploring the ruins of a long-dead alien civilization.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
Most of the image is primitives.  The ruins are made up of torri and cylinders, the ship is composed of superquadrics and tapering sweeps.  A simple fog is used to create the nebula effect.  The stars are mapped onto a sphere that enompasses the scene.  I would have used the Galaxy plugin, but support for that was dropped in Moray 3.2 :(  And of course, the flares from the engine lights are created with the Nathan Kopp flare plugin.