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.