TITLE: Rise of Star on Lost Planet
NAME: Bruno Cabasson
COUNTRY: France
EMAIL: bruno_cabasson@yahoo.fr
TOPIC: Fire and Ice
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: starrise.jpg
ZIPFILE: starrise.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV 3.6

RENDER TIME: 
    4 15

HARDWARE USED: 
    AMD Athlon 3200+ laptop

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

This star is quite weird, and every morning on the cold and icy planet produces
strange effects. A lost tree glows with sparkles, a lost cristal comes to
flames without burning, the clear atmosphere enlightens with a kind of aurora
borealis and with an atomic-like effect far away on the horizon.

What will tomorrow be like?

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Atmosphere is highly directive scatterring media. Stars are a blob (renders
quicker than many single spheres, I noticed).

Tree glow is media with attractive black hole.

Fire is made with a macro (still under developpementat the time, but quite
operational already).

Cloud is emissive media with a color_map inspired by Gimp.

Cluster and comet also emissive media.

Ground is isosurface (can be rendered as height_field).

Radiosity and photons.

Switches in the code for tuning and control the render.