TITLE: The End NAME: Richard Bigness COUNTRY: United States EMAIL: bigrichardness@yahoo.com WEBPAGE: N/A TOPIC: Future COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: theend.jpg RENDERER USED: PovRay 3.5 TOOLS USED: Notepad - Paint Shop Pro RENDER TIME: 11 hours 31 minutes HARDWARE USED: Pentium II 266 - 256 RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The end. When the universe finally expands to the point gravity isn't strong enough to coalesce free floating hydrogen into new stars, and the old ones have all died. Unbelievably sparse bits of solid matter, but with nothing to light it. The end. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I modelled over a thousand bits and chunks of solid matter, and lit the scene with a few micro powered lights -- think weak infrared, leftover heat from a dead universe.