TITLE: Earth Rise
NAME: Gail Shaw
COUNTRY: South Africa
EMAIL: gailshaw@mweb.co.za
WEBPAGE: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~gail/
TOPIC: Spectacular Landscapes
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: earthris.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Pov-Ray 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    World machine
          Paint Shop Pro

RENDER TIME: 
    2 hr 38 min

HARDWARE USED: 
    Athlon 1Ghz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


The earth, as seen from a lunar colony. To me, little could be more spectacular
than that. 


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Initially I had planned to have the colony in a massive crater, but I was unable
to create a reasonable looking crater with the tools I have. Eventually I
loaded up World Machine, created a perlin noise map and kept hitting
'randomise' until it there was a nice flat section. 

The colony is all simple CSG. There is very little detail as it was not needed,
the object being placed so far from the camera. The earth is a sphere with two
image maps and a bump map (which can't be seen) and some scattering media for
the atmosphere.

The front of the pic felt a little empty, so I created another height field and
put it close to the camera. The lunar sand is a isosurface with another
heightfield differnce out to create the footprint.

Sorry, no sourcecode this time because the pic's mostly a lot of heightfields
and image maps.