TITLE: ASTRO
NAME: Jaime Vives Piqueres
COUNTRY: Spain
EMAIL: jaime@ctav.es
WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/1090
TOPIC: PHYSICS&MATHS
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: astro.jpg
ZIPFILE: astro.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POVRay 3.0 (C) POVTeam.

TOOLS USED: 
    Qedit, (C) SemWare

RENDER TIME: 
    aprox. 1 hour, for 800x600 +a (no light_sources)

HARDWARE USED: 
    PC 486-100 for developement, P-133 for last minute render.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


 Uknown type Star with Cosmic Landscape. Don't try to understand : I'm not
 an astrophysicist.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


 My first thinking about the topic was "it's too extensive!". And, as late
 as today, I think the same. Due to my incapacity to find a concrete idea
 and a bit of work excess, I've not found the idea for this round until
 last week. That's why this scene is a bit poor in modelling, but I've
 learned a lot about halos in POVRay. I must have not entered in competit.
 this round, but I can't resist...

 There are not lights on the scene. A big sphere is used for the starmap,
 done with a POVRay pigment. The near sun/star is a sphere with crackle
 texture and some halos. The other distant stars are also halos (4 cones).

 The main work of the scene was trying and trying again with the halo
 parameters to obtain nice effects, looking at lots of photos and fiction
 drawings of the space. But I'm not much satisfied with the result: you
 can give me as few points as you want and send ultracritic comments, don't
 fear!



                                      Jaime Vives Piqueres (jaime@ctav.es)


