TITLE: cat's eye spires
NAME: steven c young
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: akawhitedog@aol.com
WEBPAGE: none
TOPIC: amazing landscapes
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: povray modled in moray
TOOLS USED: mgi photosuite to convert bitmaps to .jpeg 
RENDER TIME: 5 minutes
HARDWARE USED: amd athelon 750 mhz gateway windows 98ex
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
spires in the sea of night
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
 http://www.sai.msu.su/apod/archivepix.html
That is the archive of Astronomy Picture Of the Day. APOD.
 It is where I obtained the public domain photo of the Cat's
Eye nebula, that was used as an image map. That image map was applied to a hight field using Moray as both modler and material editor. A second hight field was used to add the water, and it's texture is purely graghicly origined from the moray material editor.
 Lighting is offset to the upper right and away from the camera, and is all white. Since the lighting is all white, all the color in the spires originated with the original photo obtained from apod,though a small amout of noise was added to it,in the material editor. Kinda neat huh.
 The "S" near the top of the central spire is both incidental and accidental. It is an artifact of how Moray projected the image as a hight field, and happens to be my first initial. I like it, but then, I would. At any rate, it was a coincidence unplaned for.