Rendered Stills

All images rendered with POV-ray (www.povray.org)

Include files for animations and renders were galaxy.inc (for the starfield) and clockmod.inc (for the animation) both by Chris Colefax (http://www.geocities.com/ccolefax/)

The colony

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View of the radiators on the back of the solar panels

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Bottom Solar Panels

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View of the "bottom" of the colony

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The window that acts as the sky for the colonists

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Docking facilities and radio dish

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Front view from afar

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View from the back

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Central spheres and hexagonal solar panel

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Topmost sphere and secondary mirror in the foreground

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Circular mirror

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What it might look like if you were taking a walk on the hexagonal solar panel

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Central spheres, hexagonal solar panel, six connecting spokes, and the secondary mirror

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More views of spheres from top

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Still another view from top

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View of bottom

 

Notes:

The aluminum-textured squares were put in to break up the monotony of the torus texture, but they may be interpreted as being part of the alminum framework that holds together the radiation shield.