Credits

Special thanks

You know you have been raytracing too long when you hop a Soyouz flight to be the first man to render an image in orbit. Many thanks to Mark Shuttleworth!
Thanks for Chris Cason for making this possible and for providing the final touches.

Scene design

Gilles Tran (France) and Jaime Vives Piqueres (Spain) - December 2001 to April 2002

Models and textures

Typewriter, printer, micro-wave, office chair, radio, cassette deck, telephones, rockets, toy train, clock, computer, safe box: POV-Ray models by Jaime Vives Piqueres
Toy plane, "Stardust" neon sign, African in Space logotype (Rhino), fridge and bottles, old globe, street signs, street light, bank notes and flying paper sheets (POV-Ray): models by Gilles Tran

All the following models and textures are © their respective authors. They were adapted and sometimes heavily modified for the purpose of creating the final image. Models followed by a * can be downloaded from Micha Riser's POV Object Collection.

Hot air balloon: POV-Ray model by Neil Alexander
Ford Thunderbird: anonymous author
Utah Teapot: anonymous author, adapted for POV-Ray by Alexander Enzman
Rubik's cube*: POV-Ray model by John L. Bolt
Background : Chris Colefax's Galaxy macro
Millenium Kid, Wedge hair, Millenium Kid Clothes Pack, scooter, poser mannequin, teddy bear: DAZ Productions
CD*: POV-Ray model by Rune S. Johansen
Electric guitar, electrophone: POV-Ray models by Fabien Mosen (thanks to Fabien for these previously unreleased models)
Planets and Earth maps (continents, clouds, nightlights), Cassini probe model: NASA
Dice*: POV-Ray model by Christian Perle
Photograph on computer screen: self-portrait taken in orbit by Mark Shuttleworth
Hat rack*: POV-Ray model by Ken Tyler

Tools

Image modelled and rendered with Persistence of Vision 3.5. Download POV-Ray here for free.
Hardware (in orbit): IBM Thinkpad A22, PIII 1 Ghz Processor 256 Meg RAM
Operating system (in orbit): Windows
Operating systems (on Earth): Windows (Gilles Tran), Linux (Jaime Vives Piqueres)
modeling tools: Rhino, Poser, Amapi, sPatch, vim
Image editing tools: Micrografx Picture Publisher, The Gimp
Model converter: 3DWin

Inspiration

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Le Petit Prince)
Daniel Torres (La estrella lejana)