TITLE: Titan The cold Hell NAME: Alain BORREL COUNTRY: France EMAIL: alborrel@club-internet.fr WEBPAGE: none TOPIC: Spectacular Landscapes COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: cold_hel.jpg RENDERER USED: MegaPov 0.7 TOOLS USED: Graphic Converter to convert in jpeg file ofless than 250K the original png fileRENDER TIME:27 h 40 : 24 s HARDWARE USED: iMac 233, 64 Mo ram IMAGE DESCRIPTION: In Titan you have - 178 _C.The triple point of methan, that you can encounter in form of gaz, liquid or solid.There are many Nitrogen in the athmosphereScientists thinks there are hydrocarbons too in the athmosphere and on the ground wich is invisible because of the clouds.So the imagination can work...You can see formation of methan ice, an arch and three "icebergs" of methan ice, a pool of reddish hydrocarbons freezed, methan snow on the groundAll in an fog of methan an nitrogen and various gazes.And the rise of Saturn above the moutains DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The planet A sphere with the image of Saturn surface mapped on.Thanks to:http://www.evildrganymede.demon.co.uk/render/render_f.htmfor the excellents maps of the Dr Ganymede !!And a few (!!) toruses.The LandscapeThe ground, the mountains, the arch and the icebergs withvarious isosurfaces functions adding noise_3D function The Arch is a CSG-difference of three isosurfaces " noised "There is two layers of fogAnd two planes, one of clouds beetween Titan and Saturnone on the ground of reddish hydrocarbons freezedI can send the Megapov source code by mail by simple request.