EMAIL: twinfire_98@yahoo.com
NAME: Thorsten Hahn
TOPIC: Worlds Within Worlds
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: The World Within
COUNTRY: Germany
WEBPAGE: none
RENDERER USED: Megapov 0.5a
TOOLS USED: Text-Editor, PSP 4.0 (Compression and Text)
RENDER TIME: long enough
HARDWARE USED: Pentium III - 1 GHz
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
This image shows a lot of Worlds within Worlds. First an image itself is already an own world within ours then a galaxy is a world again consisting of many worlds and of course (and made obviously enough, I hope) the world on the planet and the one inside of it.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
This image was made before I came up with my little Theater, but I thought that I should submit this original idea, too.

At first I wanted to render a galaxy and experimented a little with atmospheres. After the Topic was announced I thought it would be a good image for this topic, if I add some more "world" to it. So I took the mountains from my, well not so successful "Corona Mundi" placed it on a sphere, changed the texture from snow and rock to a more grassy look and rock and placed it all inside two spheres containing each one atmosphere for the blue sky and the ground fog. (After reducing the light a little the sky is  not blue anymore) While the planets both atmospheres are scattering media, the galaxy is made from emission media and centered around a light-source.

After placing a bump-mapped moon in the orbit of my planet I decided to cut the planets surface open and placed a smaller copy into it to reach the topic closer. (And no, it has nothing to do with the fact, that the original ground texture (an ocean) looked like *place your favourite expletive here*). Well the mountains now do look a little bit cut but as I began with my theater I didn't do anything about it. And since I cannot find the original source on my harddisk, I think I wont.