TITLE: Spoiled Earth
NAME: Jean-Charles Marteau
COUNTRY: France
EMAIL: exether@demo.xandmail.com
TOPIC: Decay
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: earthsp.jpg
ZIPFILE: earthsp.zip
RENDERER USED: 

    Povray 3.5


TOOLS USED: 

    Gimp, ImageMagik (for signature)


RENDER TIME: 

    70h


HARDWARE USED: 

    P III 600MHz, 256Mo


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


This image depicts what could be called conscious auto-decaying.
It makes a parallel between the smokers that spoil their own body and
human kind that spoils its own planet which is as much essential to its
survival.
Both do it because in some ways it's good until the point when it's not
anymore, and then it's always the same "If I had known ..."

The thing is that we know.

I centered the hole on the US because the states are the biggest source
of pollution on earth, but we should be all conscious that everyone in
developped countries is polluting too much.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The earth maps come from:
http://gw.marketingden.com/planets/planets.html

The cigaret is a cylinder with appropriate composite texture.
The planet is an isosurface, with full texture (including surface and center
of the planet) from which I substracted another isosurface based on sphere plus
granite perturbation. The clouds are mapped on a slightly bigger sphere so that
they can be seen clearly (even if the are not at a realistic altitude).

After that, just a basic area light and white environment because I wanted it to
look
like a propaganda poster.  :-)