TITLE: Solar speeds NAME: Stephen Cattell COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: scattell@gmail.com TOPIC: Speed COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: solar.jpg RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.6.1 TOOLS USED: povray editor RENDER TIME: approx 2m 15s HARDWARE USED: Athlon 64 3200+ 2.00GHz 1GB RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The planets are the fastest things we'll ever be on. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The Moon is just a sphere with a pigment map and a normal. The pigment map gives the _oceans_ and the normal gives the craters. The sun is a combination of two medias. One is a spherical media the other has turbulence to add the solar flares. It has a area light in it facing the moon and the planet The planet's surface is a complicated texture. two pigment maps (one ripple one and one bump one) make up the normal of the land texture to give the impression of mountains. The land pigment is a 5 color ripple with a little bit of turbulence. This is combined with a sharp edge with a plain blue water texture. The clouds are a sphere with some parts a pure white texture and others transparent. The stars are just 10000 ambient spheres randomly placed far away.