EMAIL: up@ct.heise.de NAME: Uwe Post TOPIC: Great Engineerung Achievements COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: The Greatest Restaurant Under The Sun Replacement COUNTRY: Germany WEBPAGE: http://www.heise.de/ct/Redaktion/up RENDERER USED: Povray for Windows 3.01 TOOLS USED: lparser, breeze designer RENDER TIME: 25 min HARDWARE USED: Pentium 233 MMX IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Would you like to visit The Greatest Restaurant Under The Sun Replacement? Usually, the prices are huge - but today it's happy hour. And there is light - you don't need a sun, just a 10^26 Watts bulb and a very long cable. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: When I read about the topic, images came to my mind immediately. Sorry: no Eiffel tower or Golden Gate Bridge. But elevator to the moon, bridge across the ocean and -- the sun replacement. Of course all of you know, that our life-spending sunlight will vanish sometime in the far future. Of course mankind will be able to replace the sun by a 10^26 W light bulb. And of course, there will be the Replacement Dome Restaurant. The light bulb: a blob The glowing wire: a helix made with lparser and a halo The cable: made with lparser The Starship: made with breeze designer The Restaurant Name: made with simple "rundtext" include file The Textures: naked code The Stars: many spheres far away