EMAIL: twinfire_98@yahoo.com
NAME: Thorsten Hahn
TOPIC: Spirit of Asia
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Corona Mundi
COUNTRY: Germany
WEBPAGE: none
RENDERER USED: Megapov 0.5a
TOOLS USED: Text-Editor, PSP 4.0 (Compression and Text)
RENDER TIME: 1d 04h 38m 33s
HARDWARE USED: Pentium III - 1 GHz
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
CORONA MUNDI (Top(crown) of the World)
The Himalaya.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
Well, since I had absolute no ideas for this topic, I thought about, what (simple) image could represent Asia best. Since Asia is the lagest land-mass with the highest spots on this planet I decided the Himalaya as the Top of the World would fit best.

The Image Itself is very simple (I found out, that from images I made, the ones wich are made with very simple objects and effects score better) It is made with four objects from wich only three are actually visible (plus one lightsource and camera).

The first object is a sphere to define my world. I'm used to place my scenes (when they are outside) on a planet (wich is very often too small) to create more realistic atmospherical effects (like clouds, wich are, in this image not present) or the atmosphere itself.

The second an thirs objects are spheres a little larger than the first. These objects contain the atmospheres. One for the blue sky and one for the fog in the mountains. It would have been simpler to create a simple blue sphere for the sky and leave out the fog, since it almost does not affect the scene, but I simple love long render times ;-). By the way the almost invisible effects are the best.

The third object is a isosurface I actually found. Since it already created a very realistic mountain landscape I decided not to invent everything new (There goes my score again) and just modified the parameters and texture. The texture is a slope texture using a dark grey for the rocky parts and my snow texture from my "The Fortress" entry earlier this year.

All in all the image is not very original or anything but it at least kept my computer working.