Here again the guidelines:

There are some important guidelines to follow:

1
You shall make each POV-Ray unit equal to one meter.
2
You shall supply me the exact dimensions and ranges on the three axises (x, 
y, z).
3
You shall have a sufficient amount of details in order to fit (again: see 
image).
4
You shall not make it looking simple, it must look technical - excentrically 
colored discs will not be accepted.
5
You shall not use textures without lights (ship windows).
6
You shall not use colors which do not fit the given standard design (see any 
of the "Previews" here).
7
You shall not create a ship which is not properly directed: ship front 
is -z, ship back is +z, ship top is +y, ship bottom is -y, ship steerboard 
is -x, ship backboard is +x (means: if you are located at let's say Z-100, 
the ship is flying towards you).
8
You shall supply your files as include.
9
You shall supply your ship objects as meshes or regular shapes (boxes, 
cylinders, etc.).
10
You shall not name your textures with common names but apply names which 
contain your own name or the scene name, to prevent that you textures may be 
mistaken because of identical names with other textures.

We also welcome:

- humans in future spacesuits (practical, light-weight suits)
- small crafts such as maintenance capsulas, maintenance robots, 
atmospherical ferries, space ferries, fighters, corvettes, observers, other 
small ships
- realistic planets such as seen on the background of some of my previews

On demand, I will supply you with my textures and source code examples how
to use them. That would ensure a certain similarity.

Everybody who shares his starship SDL files will also receive, on his 
demand, the scene files of other participants.

The first developers of really cool starships will be invited to join our 
future "jury" and take the decisions away from my shoulders alone, which 
starships, planets, etc. are accepted for the project and which not.

Question:

Should we make out of this project the International SF Raytracing 
Competition ("ISF.RC")?

Sven

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