Jan Danielsson wrote:
> 
> The Swedish tv-channel "TV4" has announced a competition: "Fake UFO sighting
> videos or photos" as some kind of "new episodes of X-Files"-jippo-thing. The
> rules are simple: There are no rules. :-)  You can do it the "old" way, throw
> junk through the air, film it and blur the picture, or you can use
> bluescreen... ..or why not use raytracing?
> 
> A friend of mine made a cool picture. He went out with a digital camera, took
> a picture over the city where he lives, then cooked together a UFO sighting
> picture using Maya and that photo.
> 
> Anyone here done any of those kind of pictures (placing traced objects in
> real world photos) with Pov-Ray?

	An actual contest. Worth playing with it. 

	I'd say POV for animation so that detail increases as it comes closer. 

	But for a still I'd stick with Photoshop. I did some joke images
putting colored diatoms over San Diego with properly messed up
reflections of them in the water. Didn't turn out half bad. 

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