TITLE: Wilderness Volcano
NAME: Joseph Eddy
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: eddy0019@tc.umn.edu
WEBPAGE: http://jceddy.tripod.com/
TOPIC: The Wilderness
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: jcewilde.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    povray

TOOLS USED: 
    Povray, Microsoft Image Composer for JPEG Conversion

RENDER TIME: 
    About 12hr.

HARDWARE USED: 
    Sun Solaris Workstation (Rendering), AMD K6-2 366 (JPEG
Conversion)

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

You are watching a volcano erupt on a Gas Giant's moon.  Glowing blue fog
blankets the ground, pierced here and there by translucent blue crystalline
structures.  One of the Gas Giant's other moons is in clear view.  The Giant's
rings fill up most of the sky, three bands of color with the light of stars
behind twinkling through.  The wildness of outer space...unexplored
galaxies...perhaps soon to be the only Wilderness left to explore.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

I used Chris Colefax's Explode and Spray include files to create the lava and
the pieces of rock exploding out of the top of the volcano.  The volcano itself
(as well as the mountains around it) is a height map textured with a modified
agate and with a sphere removed to create the volcano's crater.  I attached a
bright orange area light to the central part of the plume of lava and put
another one on top of the lava, and used this as the only source of light
(barring ambient).

My render crashed when the picture was almost done, so I rendered again with the
bottom only and put the two pieces together in Image Composer.  I hope that
doens't violate any rules, but it's too long of a render for me to start over
again.