TITLE: The World Within
NAME: Thorsten Hahn
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: twinfire_98@yahoo.com
WEBPAGE: none
TOPIC: Worlds Within Worlds
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: ww_0202h.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Megapov 0.5a

TOOLS USED: 
    Text-Editor, PSP 4.0 (Compression and Text)

RENDER TIME: 
    long enough

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium III - 1 GHz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

This image shows a lot of Worlds within Worlds. First an image itself is already
an own world within ours then a galaxy is a world again consisting of many
worlds and of course (and made obviously enough, I hope) the world on the
planet and the one inside of it.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

This image was made before I came up with my little Theater, but I thought that
I should submit this original idea, too.

At first I wanted to render a galaxy and experimented a little with atmospheres.
After the Topic was announced I thought it would be a good image for this
topic, if I add some more "world" to it. So I took the mountains from my, well
not so successful "Corona Mundi" placed it on a sphere, changed the texture
from snow and rock to a more grassy look and rock and placed it all inside two
spheres containing each one atmosphere for the blue sky and the ground fog.
(After reducing the light a little the sky is  not blue anymore) While the
planets both atmospheres are scattering media, the galaxy is made from emission
media and centered around a light-source.

After placing a bump-mapped moon in the orbit of my planet I decided to cut the
planets surface open and placed a smaller copy into it to reach the topic
closer. (And no, it has nothing to do with the fact, that the original ground
texture (an ocean) looked like *place your favourite expletive here*). Well the
mountains now do look a little bit cut but as I began with my theater I didn't
do anything about it. And since I cannot find the original source on my
harddisk, I think I wont.