EMAIL: spz@komodo.bu.edu NAME: Simon Portegies Zwart TOPIC: imaginary worlds COPYRIGHT: I SUBIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT TITLE: young star cluster COUNTRY: The Netherlands WEBPAGE: http://grape.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~spz RENDERER USED: PovRay 3.0 beta TOOLS USED: starlab software toolset (http://www.sns.ias.edu/~starlab/starlab.html). RENDER TIME: 2 minutes 51.95 seconds at 94.9% CPU HARDWARE USED: Dec alpha 533 Mhz IMAGE DISCRIPTION: The image gives a view of a young star cluster in its placental cloud from a distance of 3 parsec. The colors of the starts represent their effective surface temperatures and sizes represent brightness. For further reading of the scientific matter see the paper by Portegies Zwart et al. (1999 at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/9812006) DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The star images are created by Chris Colefax.