TITLE: young star cluster
NAME: Simon Portegies Zwart
COUNTRY: The Netherlands
EMAIL: spz@komodo.bu.edu
WEBPAGE: http://grape.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~spz
TOPIC: imaginary worlds
COPYRIGHT: I SUBIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT
JPGFILE: pzmmh.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    PovRay 3.0 beta

TOOLS USED: 
    starlab software toolset
(http://www.sns.ias.edu/~starlab/starlab.html). 

RENDER TIME: 
    2 minutes 51.95 seconds at 94.9% CPU

HARDWARE USED: 
    Dec alpha 533 Mhz
IMAGE DISCRIPTION:
The image gives a view of a young star cluster in its placental cloud
from a distance of 3 parsec. The colors of the starts represent their
effective surface temperatures and sizes represent brightness.
For further reading of the scientific matter see the paper by
Portegies Zwart et al. (1999 at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/9812006) 

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The star images are created by Chris Colefax.