EMAIL: chrfr@chrfr.de
NAME: Christian Froeschlin
TOPIC: From Rubbage Bin to Junkyard
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Orbital Debris
COUNTRY: Germany
WEBPAGE: -
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.6
TOOLS USED: MS Paint (JPG Conversion)
RENDER TIME: 15 minutes
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 4 2.6Ghz
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

All that orbital debris needs to originate *somewhere* ...


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

I revisited an abondoned attempt at planet rendering for this scene.
The planet is simply a sphere with an image map from satellite data,
a cloud texture layer and atmospheric media.

The space suit object is a wrinkled blob. Due to differences in 
magnitude, the scene suffered from some scaling problems and the
blob didn't work as expected. As a workaround, that EVA person is
now an amazing moon-sized object located conveniently far away.

The various junk objects are rather simple, and the
background junk is actually a density map.

Most of the above mentioned 15 minutes rendering time were spent
loading the high-res version of the satellite image (read: choking
on 1 GB memory usage with only 512 MB physically available).