This package contains the files needed to render the Starship U.S.S.
Enterprise NCC-1701-A by the Persistence of Vision Raytracer version 1.0.

POV-Ray requires about 2.5 megabytes of memory to render this scene.

This scene is completely hand made - no machine generated objects are
used. There is only quartics, quadrics, spheres, planes and boxes, no
triangles or triangle-based primitives.

Scene is very slow to render. There is a `feature' in POV-Ray 1.0, which
causes lots of unneeded work to be done when calculating layered textures
and this scene contains textures with up to ten layers. The rendering time
can be dropped to one third by recompiling the POV-Ray 1.0 with module
lighting.c patched by lighting.diff file, which is included in this package.
If you are using this patch, then check the beginning of the bigetext.inc -
there is a line to be commented out and another to uncomment. It's described
in more detail in the bigetext.inc.

Files:

    Readme.doc    - This file.

    big_e.pov     - Definitions of the view point, light source and
                    background. This is the file you should give as input to
                    PoV-Ray.

    big_e.inc     - Include file which contains the definition for the
                    starship Enterprise. This file is included by
                    `big_e.pov'.

    quick_e.inc   - Quick testing replacement for `big_e.inc'. Contains
                    definition for very rough approximation of the object
                    in `big_e.inc'.

    bigetext.inc  - Texture definitions for the Enterprise. Included by
                    `big_e.inc'.

    saucer.inc    - Definition for the saucer section of the Enterprise.
                    Included by `big_e.inc'.

    sechull.inc   - Definition for the secondary hull of the enterprise.
                    Included by `big_e.inc'.

    nacelles.inc  - Definition for the warp drive nacelles of the Enterprise.
                    Included by `big_e.inc'.

    topfront.iff  - Image map file containing the texts `U.S.S. ENTERPRISE'
                    and `NCC-1701-A' to be placed on front side of the top of
                    the saucer section. IFF ILBM, 1120 x 384, 2 colors.

    toprear.iff   - Same as above, but to the back of the saucer top.
                    IFF ILBM, 320 x 120, 2 colors.

    botfront.iff  - Image map file containing the text `NCC-1701-A' to be
                    placed on front side of the bottom of the saucer section.
                    IFF ILBM, 600 x 136, 2 colors.

    botrear.iff   - Image map file containing the text `ENTERPRISE' to be
                    placed on rear side of the bottom of the saucer section.
                    IFF ILBM, 340 x 75, 2 colors.

    sechull.iff   - Image map file for the texts and stripes of the secondary
                    hull. IFF ILBM, 720 x 48, 4 colors.

    back.iff      - `Enterprise'-text for the back of the secondary hull.
                    IFF ILBM 176 x 15, 2 colors.

    ncc1701a.iff  - Image map file containing the texts `NCC-1701-A' and
                    `United Federation of Planets' used on warp nacelles.
                    IFF ILBM 464 x 85, 2 colors.

    lighting.dif -  Modification to POV-Ray, which may be used to speed up
                    the rendering.

Updated for Jose Luis Arranz:

- Fixed any bug  (to render with Povray 2.0 or higher add the command line +mv1.0)
- Add a new perspective:
    
   Enterprise.pov - New camera angle whithout planet and with other light source.


You may freely distribute use and modify these files, but if you are going to
do something commercial with them, please contact the author.

Author:

    Ville Saari

    Tallbergin puistotie 7 B 21
    00200 Helsinki             
    FINLAND                    

    Phone: +358 0 682 2226

    Internet: vsaari@garfield.fipnet.fi

Modifications by:
 
    Jose Luis Arranz  - E-mail: jlarranz@technologist.com