EMAIL: benoit.kloeckner@free.fr
NAME: Benoit Kloeckner
TOPIC: Catastrophe
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Scorched Earth
COUNTRY: France
WEBPAGE: n/a
RENDERER USED: povray 3.6
TOOLS USED: the GIMP 2 for conversion to jpg and signature.
RENDER TIME: about 40 mn in CPU time
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 4, 2 GHz, RAM 384 Mo

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
  In five billion years, the sun will grow into a red giant and the 
  Earth will share the agony of it star.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
  For my second scene and first entry, I choose something rather simple:
  all object are spheres. 
    The Sun is the union of a filtering sphere and a scattering media, 
  with a central light source and a shadowless area light source. The 
  Earth is the union of a partially filtering sphere (with crackle 
  pattern) and a scattering media, with a strong light source. The milky
  way is a flatenned big sphere with emiting media and the stars are spheres
  placed randomly far away, with random ambient color and brightness.