This is quite wonderful. Mark Shuttleworth, entrepreneur and the second civilian to visit the International Space Station last year, is also a ray-tracing enthusiast. During his stay in orbit as a guest of the Russian space program, he used his laptop to render a scene designed by two renowned POV-Ray artists.
The resulting image is the first work of art ever to have been created digitally in space. It is beautiful, evocative, and incredibly detailed, and stands as a testament to what POV-Ray can do.
It's also available to buy as a poster.
Thanks for the link to povray, once there I found the gilles tran image "the wet bird" which I subsequently ordered from zazzle!
thanks!
You're welcome, thanks for reading.
I love that image. It was also the winning still in the March-April 2000 Internet Ray Tracing Competition (www.irtc.org) -- the competition archives are really fun to browse, and full of stunning and clever images. You might want to check it out.
(posted this comment to weblog.garyturner.net too)