TITLE: Birth of a New World
NAME: Sean Hamilton
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: Sean_Hamilton@amrcorp.com
TOPIC: Nature
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: nworld80.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POVRay 3.0

TOOLS USED: 
    POVRay 3.0

RENDER TIME: 
    approx 2 hrs

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 166, 32MB Ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

A young world forming in a vast sea, almost ready to 
begin its journey through the cosmos.

The image may be a stretch for the topic 'Nature' but 
nothing represented here is artificial or synthethic;  
just presented in a different 'perspective'.

This is actually the actualization of one of those images
from real life that stick your head years after you should
have cleared out that memory for something important.  In
this case it was a beach ball from childhood that had an
image of the Earth on it.  Something about the 'Earth' ball
floating on the waves of the ocean stuck with me. So here
it is.

Note the rays of 'energy' eminating from the planetoid.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

My first raytraced image; it consists of a plane using 
ripples and wrinkles with a silver texture, a sphere 
partially submerged into the plane with a color-mapped 
agate texture (Blue, Sienna and forest green in the 
color map), a slate colored fog, and an orange and red 
halo behind the viewer, giving the 'energy' reflecting 
from the surface of the water.

Although I still have the image, the source was lost.

All coding and rendering was done in POVRay 3.
Conversion to jpeg by Paint Shop Pro.