TITLE: The Great Wall of China From Just Before Hitting The Moon.
NAME: Jon Berube
COUNTRY: The United States Of America
EMAIL: prm@alignment.net
WEBPAGE: http://www.gis.net/~berb/new
TOPIC: Landmarks
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: gwocspac.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POVRay 3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    Irfanview (to convert TGA to JPG)

RENDER TIME: 
    1mins 15 secs

HARDWARE USED: 
    Celeron 333mhz, 32mb Ram.


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Awww geeez.  My mind has been elsewhere this IRTC round.  I just
never got around to making an image for the IRTC.  So here is
the great wall of china from outer space.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Earth == Image map + sphere
Stars == stars.inc + plane*z

CREDITS:
Here is some text from #povray (EFnet, NEWnet, DALnet)
PRM == me!
ChrisHuff == Chris J. Huff
Gonad_ == Gautum N. Lad (I hope I spelled it right)


<PRM> OH SH*T
<PRM> IRTC closes tommorow
<PRM> need to come up with an image fast...
<PRM> landmarks?!?
<PRM> ack... that's goign to be hard
<ChrisHuff> It took forever to start.
<ChrisHuff> Hmm, do a view of the Great Wall of China from space?
<Gonad_> Whoohoo!
<ChrisHuff> That should be fairly easy...:-)
<PRM> Yeah :)
<PRM> in fact i'll go do that right now
<Gonad_> Chris: The GWOC is really visible from space...\
<PRM> and in my TXT file i'lll explain that the IRTC slipped my mind
<PRM> Gonad: i'll do it from the view fo the moon
<ChrisHuff> Gonad_: What?
<Gonad_> PRM: Grab a pic. of the moon (from NASA's site), map it to a sphere,
and render an arrow pointing to the spot (The Sea of Tranquility?) where the
first man landed.
<Gonad_> GWOC=Great Wall Of China
<PRM> Gonad: that's what i'm goign to do :)
<PRM> well...forget the arrow
<Gonad_> Heheh
<ChrisHuff> Gonad_: Yeah...?
<Gonad_> Don't forget to mention me in the credits
<PRM> i'll mention you and Chris
<Gonad_> Chris: Yeah...it's visible from space. (well froma certain distance but
it is visible)
<ChrisHuff> I know, that is why I mentioned it.

So like...thanks you two!