TITLE: An Explosion
NAME: Stephen Lumini
COUNTRY: Canada
EMAIL: s_lumini@hotmail.com
WEBPAGE: N/A
TOPIC: Horror
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: anexplos.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray,sPatch,Pov 3.1, Paint Shop Pro

RENDER TIME: 
    6 hours 37 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    PII-400 - 128M of RAM
IMPORTANT IMAGE VIEWING DETAIL:  One of the major elements of the image is the
faintly reflected face of the astronaut now stranded on the moon.
Please view with the contrast of the monitor set to max and increase the
brightness until you are just, just able to make out the gasping face.


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    The atmosphere ignites, the fire storms are continent wide,
cracks rip through the mantle.  Nine human beings survive the annilation of
Earth, trapped on the moon.  

Even with no signal from Earth there is work to do.  Having unloaded the welding
equipment from the mini shuttle, the astronaut looks up at the Big Blue Marble
and suddenly realizes why there has been no signal.  In shock he stumbles back
a couple of steps, unconsciously reaching for his family.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The reflection is really just a sphere with an image map and filtering and
transparency.
The planet is an intersection between a sphere and a union of translation
sweeps.  A sort of  jigsaw puzzle of sweeps.  The "fire" is emitting media -
truth to tell, I'm not sure why they work - I tried a couple of  different
setting and when they looked good, I stopped changing things.
The crater is a heightfield.
The hand/arm is a sPatch object I made.
Everything else is pretty much Primitives and CSGs.