EMAIL: alex@astro.queensu.ca NAME: Alexander Duncan TOPIC: Physics/Math COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Random Atom COUNTRY: Canada RENDERER USED: POVRay 3.01(PPC Macintosh) TOOLS USED: pseudo-random number generator(included in POVRay) RENDER TIME: Overnight HARDWARE USED: Power Macintosh 8500/120 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: An atom against a starry(atommy?) background, spiffed up by cool texture FX. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I used POVRay's random function heavily. A bunch of randomly sized spheres are distributed randomly around a central point with random textures. The electrons were generated by creating a randomly textured sphere at a random distance, rotated randomly with a randomly colored torus halo around it to signify it's orbit. I know it isn't anything like a real atom, but it looks cool and serves to show how randomness can be an incredibly useful tool in raytracing.