TITLE: When the Bough Breaks...
NAME: Matthew Corey Brown
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: talious@sprynet.com
WEBPAGE: http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/talious
TOPIC: Physics and Math
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: mcbwtbb.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Personal patched version of Povray for windows 3.01

TOOLS USED: 
    sPatch, PaintShopPro

RENDER TIME: 
    20 hrs 00 mins 23 secs

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium Pro 180

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


 "This is XNC 0885 Lunar Mineral Industries Transport Ship Sagan to Angus Bay
Control,
requesting clearance to land."
 "Negative Sagan, You are ordered to assume a perpidicular course to the plane
of the eliptic at all possible speed. The Sun has gone Nova and the wave will 
only hit in the eplitical plane! Godspeed to the Heavens, Sagan.
Angus Bay Control, Out!"

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I was working on the shuttle craft for another image (Of a mars landing) 
just before the topic came about. I read the discription of the topic and
thought 
astronomical event. Okay lets make the sun go nova. But I didn't want all of
humanity
to die so i decided to work harder on the shuttle craft and have it escaping. AT

the same time i decided to name the shuttle after Carl Sagan, the person who got
me
in to physics in the first place (I grew up watching cosmos) So this is my
memorial to
him.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


First came the nova wave. I has woking around with halos and wasn't satisfied
with a linear
map. SO i grabbed the source and added the ability to use pigment_maps in
addition
to color_maps.

The earth and the moon are both hi res  image maps and lots of processing to
turn the image maps into bump maps. Also I used the image map of the earth and 
created a 3 texture material map, ocean, land, and ice. with ice and land using

the bump and image maps of earth with different finishes and the ocean just
being
a metalic bumpy bluish bozo texture.

The husk of the sun was done with a standard colormap halo.

The logo on the shuttle is a material/image map of a ratrace moon with the
Initials
in front of it. 

The outer part of the cockpit i used sPatch. (sPatch has made me break my rule
on not
using modelers but i'm just in love with it =} I'm using it to redo my dragon of
my
nov-dec 96 entry)

the rest of the shuttle is just simple primatives.

The exhaust flames are another pigment_map halo (If you look closely you'll see
a 
graident pigment or 2 mapped withing the special density mapping)

and it was rendered with 4x4 radiosity