Skeeter
Here's another ship that I created over the summer of '97. I call it 'Skeeter' because of the long, pointy nose and overall insectoid appearance.
This image found its way onto an article on the Physical Review Focus website in May of 2000.
From there, it was picked up by the folks at SPACE.com for the same article. It was then used as the title image for a series of serial sci-fi stories on the same site.
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Intergalactic Space
This picture is a test scene that demonstrates a couple of astronomical objects that I created... There are two globular clusters, plus a lovely (imho) spiral galaxy in the foreground.
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Nebula v2
The glowing stars in this nebula were created using multiple scaled glowing halos with different color maps. The nebula and the stars inside it were also created using a turbulated glowing halo, plus several 'point' halos to form the stars inside. (The hard way, I know.. :)
Thanks go out to Nathan Kopp for a great lens flare plugin.
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Quartic-Ship
That's right... this spaceship (used in Music of the Spheres) is made almost entirely of a 6th-order teardrop shape found in the standard 'shapesq.inc' that comes with POV-Ray.
For some strange reason, POV 3.0 absolutely trashes this model. There is some kind of odd interaction with POV 3.0's bounding scheme and the 6th-order shape that makes up the hull of the ship. I'm still playing with it!
Perhaps POV 3.5 will be kinder to this one.
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Dawn
This is a hacked version of the 'Mesa Dawn' pictures in the Landscape Gallery. All I did was remove the sky and the mesas, rotated the camera slightly, and voila! Instant sunrise from orbit.
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Flight of the Hunters
This image uses another of the ships I created a couple of years ago for Leif Bloomquist. It is a companion to the 'Sniper' ship in the Space picture that Lucent used.
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Space!
In this picture, I resurrected some nifty models I created for Leif Bloomquist's game Sector Wars. These are the 'Sniper' ships with a few POV 3.0 goodies to spruce them up a bit.
By a stroke of good fortune, a marketing manager from Lucent Technologies happened across my gallery one day and picked out this image to use as the cover of the brochure shown in the Published Items Gallery.
5/01 - I have since greatly enhanced this picture and even made it into a 16"x20" poster.
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Space v2
This is an updated version of the previous image. The planet's rings are formed by a special media function. Part of the texture of the planet is from a hi-res Hubble shot of Jupiter that I cropped and re-colored. The background nebulae are provided by Chris Colefax's excellent POV space plugin.
This image, when rendered at insanely high resolution, made a fantastic poster.
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Space -- in 3-D!
A while back, some pictures became popular that were '3D' if you stared at them while crossing your eyes properly. Well, this picture is like that, only you don't need to cross your eyes or anything. Just get a comfortable distance from your monitor, then relax your eyes and focus beyond your screen, letting your left eye see the left image and your right eye see the right image. It should snap into focus in 3D!
This image uses Chris Colefax's fantastic 'Galaxy' plugin for POV-Ray to provide the background. The planet and moon are objects that I created sometime back. The ship in the foreground is the famous 'Skeeter'.
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Star Cruiser
This is my attempt to create a Star Trek-ish type space ship. I think I was attempting to create something that I could plug into other scenes that I had already finished in order to generate something new and interesting. I suppose I got bored/discouraged with this effort and never took it any further.
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