TITLE: Light
NAME: Leroy Whetstone
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: lrwii@joplin.com
WEBPAGE: http://leroywhetstone.s5.comJPGFILE: Light.jpg
ZIPFILE: none


TOPIC: Speed
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: light.jpg
RENDERER USED: 

 Povray 3.6 Windows


TOOLS USED: 

 jpeg conversion: Image Force by Cursor Arts Co.
 PosenLR: Robot and Tobor Poses(my own C++ program still in progress)



RENDER TIME: 

 Todal: 6 min 11 sec



HARDWARE USED: 

 Anthon 1.2Ghz 256 Meg RAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    The fastest thing in the observable universe
                              LIGHT.
                   But how to represent it, I've choosen to get
                   on an astroid with a speed limit sign and
                   a robot. Then take a look at a Super Nova. 
                   The light from that should do.

SCENE :
 size: 800 * 640
 antialias: threshold .2 method 2 depth 4

 frame level objects: 617


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


   Galexies:
    There are over 300 galexies each with around 100,000 stars.
    All galexies where made with POV. Each star was a sphere. 
    To save memory I made 30 base galexies then save their pitures.
    I use those pictures on a disc and scale, rotate, and translate
    those discs.   

   Speed Sign: This sign is all CSG and text   
   
   Robot: I took my old robot from the last round and work on it
         a bit. Changing the face, dropping the ears and adding
         some meat on the arms. 
   
   astriod: This is made of a merged torus & cylinder.
            Then I slightly scale 3 versions of that with 
            different pigments. Each upper pigment has
            a clear spot in it.



epilogue: 
Zip-File: Sorry no zip file the galexies would take to much space.

 By the way the light coming from this screen takes
  appoximatly 2.0*10^-9 seonds to reach your eye.
  
 
 My web page has some basic tools for working with POV-ray.
 All the tools are written in C++ and are for Windows.

 Feel free to E-mail me with any comments and or suggests.
 If you e-mail me make sure you have POV in the subject
 or I WILL NOT read it.
 





