TITLE: Europa
NAME: Mike Lashbrook
COUNTRY: United States
EMAIL: mlashbro@yahoo.com
WEBPAGE: N/A

TOPIC: Future
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: mleuropa.jpg
RENDERER USED: 

  POVRay 3.5


TOOLS USED: 

  Moray 3.5 (texture editor)
  Poser 4.0 (Figures)
  POVTree 1.3
  TomTree (Trees and Bushes)
  OBJuvPOV (Convert Poser to Povray)
  Rune's Particle System (camp fire)
  Jasc Paintshop Pro (JPEG Conversion, Added my name).


RENDER TIME: 

  Total Time:    0 hours 18 minutes  40.0 seconds (1120 seconds)
  

HARDWARE USED: 

  Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz w/512MB memory.


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

  In the far future, humans have settled the moons 
  of Jupiter.  On the moon of Europa, the citizens 
  have demanded "green space" to remind them of home.  
  Take a look around the new "green" dome with a 
  wonderful view of Jupiter.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

  I started this scene in the hopes of doing an
  outdoor scene.  I was almost done, but there
  was something missing. When I saw that this round's 
  topic was future, a light bulb went off.  How cool
  would it be to have my forest scene on a moon of 
  Jupiter.
  
  There are two image maps in this scene.  Jupiter is
  an image map downloaded from NASA.  The star field is
  an image map made with Paintshop Pro.
  
  Due to the way that I create things in POVRay, my scene
  source is spread over 20 different files.  In order to cut
  down on confusion, I am not including my source.  Also, the 
  Trees where made with POVTree mesh exports (30MB or more each).