TITLE: Scorched Earth
NAME: Benoit Kloeckner
COUNTRY: France
EMAIL: benoit.kloeckner@free.fr
WEBPAGE: n/a
TOPIC: Catastrophe
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: scorched.jpg
ZIPFILE: scorched.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    povray 3.6

TOOLS USED: 
    the GIMP 2 for conversion to jpg and signature.

RENDER TIME: 
    about 40 mn in CPU time

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 4, 2 GHz, RAM 384 Mo


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

  In five billion years, the sun will grow into a red giant and the 
  Earth will share the agony of it star.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

  For my second scene and first entry, I choose something rather simple:
  all object are spheres. 
    The Sun is the union of a filtering sphere and a scattering media, 
  with a central light source and a shadowless area light source. The 
  Earth is the union of a partially filtering sphere (with crackle 
  pattern) and a scattering media, with a strong light source. The milky
  way is a flatenned big sphere with emiting media and the stars are spheres
  placed randomly far away, with random ambient color and brightness.

