EMAIL: nemtos at altern dot org
NAME: Nemtos
TOPIC: Catastrophe
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Extinction, the return.
COUNTRY: France
WEBPAGE: http://dark.unitz.ca/~nemtos
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.6
TOOLS USED: Home-made script to turn DEM into mesh, nkflare macro
RENDER TIME: 54 seconds
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 4, 2.4 GHz, 256 MB.
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: One of Hollywood's favourite ways of destroying the Earth!
Yes, the White House and the Eiffel Tower will be wiped out, as always!

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
The asteroid is a 320,000-triangle mesh2 object built from a DEM of Mars' satellite Phobos
with a home-made Perl script. The starfield is built by a home-made macro which puts
low-saturation spheres in the camera field (and only there: it saves a LOT of time).
The flare is made with the famous nkflare macro, because my own flares do not look so
cool... yet! The Earth map comes from http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/
The hardest part was to make the "dem2mesh" script!