TITLE: Night invades day.
NAME: Jeffry J. Brickley
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: jbrickley@programmer.net
WEBPAGE: www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/3210
TOPIC: Nature
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: eclipse1.jpg
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    POV 3.04

TOOLS USED: 
    FreeView to convert to JPG
         Chris Colefax's Lens effecs include file
            Chris Colefax's Galaxy include file    

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    1 hour 23 min 40 secs with AA=0.1

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium II 233

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


I had already had the idea for this before the
competition for Night.  Due to work related problems, I never got this
started, the the competition for Nature was started and I figured it 
was only "loosly" night related, but very much a part of nature.  I used
about 10 solar exclipse photos as a reference, the yellow corona is from
the visible spectrum, the flares (which visibly are never that large) are
a combination of visble/Infrared/Ultraviolet and X-Ray signitures of a
solar eclipse....  Although used as examples this copies no known photo-
graph of any solar eclipse.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


A starfield is generated from
Chris Colefax's Galaxy include file, then a large halo is generated for 
the solar corona, it's shape spherical but with a variable color map, it's 
shape is slightly off round.  The two more halos, slightly smaller, are
generated with high turbulence and lots of detail to provide the "fire"
appearance.  Then to make it look like an eclipse, a sphere with no
properties is placed between the "sun" and the camera.  Then a lens flare
is added from Chris Colefax's Lens Effects to look like the sun is just
starting to come out of eclipse....