TITLE: Overkill
NAME: Roman Reiner
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: limdaepl@gmx.de
TOPIC: Catastrophe
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: overkill.jpg
ZIPFILE: overkill.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray v3.6

TOOLS USED: 
    Adobe Photoshop 6.0 to edit textures, converting to JPG and adding
authors information

RENDER TIME: 
    5 minutes 8 seconds (308 seconds)

HARDWARE USED: 
    Celeron 2.6 GHz, 640 MB RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Space. The night side of our planet. The nightlights of Europe glittering down
below. Suddenly: a blazing light dazzling the eye, then an other one and
another...



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Being less on time this month I only produced this very very simple image. But I
think in relation to the time I spent to it it looks pretty nice.
Technically there's nothing important. Just a few spheres, some lightsources and
some texturing. the citylights-texture is from somewhere in the internet. I
don't know exactly where i have it from. just google "night lights" and you'll
find it somewhere. The clouds-texture is from the free space simulation
celestia aviable at "http://www.shatters.net/celestia" (try it its nice).

Oh and don't ask me about the placement of the impacts. they are placed randomly
and I had to try a couple of seeds until none of them hit the water. Placing
them over the big citys would have taken too much time.