EMAIL: betasoft@acc.umu.se
NAME: Mattias Karlsson
TOPIC: Future
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Colony 427
COUNTRY: Sweden
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.5
TOOLS USED: WinDome 4.80 and Photoshop 7.0
RENDER TIME: 2 hours 4 minutes
HARDWARE USED: Xeon 2.6GHz (HyperThread), 2600MHz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Just another day on colony four two seven.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

I started with the design of each seperate building. 
	
First of all was the  fusion power plant, now located in the upper left
corner. The dome was first created with WinDome 4.8 and then I had to add
all faces by hand. 
	
Second building to be designed is all satelite dishes. The main dish is
simply a parabola and the backside is a semi-transparent sphere. They are
then joined together in a macro that let you easily change the "heading".
	
The greenhouses in the middle of the scene is simply a mostly transparent
cylinder+box. I tried a lot of different techniques to generate the crop 
and none of them feel saitisfiable, but I finaly ended up using a simple
isosurface. 

The residential area is a simple cylinder with some parts carved out. 


The ground is also an isosurface with a normal map to create a more bumpy
surface. 
	

If I ever get time to continue working on this picture, the following
things whould be added:

 - A more detailed park-area. 
 - Some sort of transportation between all buildings.
 - Keep working on the dirt and similar to all concrete areas.