TITLE: Lunascape
NAME: John Campbell
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: jcampbel@lynn.ci-n.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.ci-n.com/~jcampbel/
TOPIC: Spectacular Landscapes
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: lunas.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.5 (Linux/x86)

TOOLS USED: 
    joe text editor, home-rolled terrain generator, GIMP image editor

RENDER TIME: 
    51 seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    Dual-processor AMD Athlon XP 1900+ / 1024M

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


        All of Earth's spectacular landscapes in one go, as seen from our
nearest neighbor.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


        All modeling - not that there was much of it this time around - was
done in my text editor. The imagemaps are actual satellite imagery that I
got from various online sources. The terrain generator I wrote myself.
(http://www.ci-n.com/software/terrain/)

        Terra is a sphere with two images mapped onto it, one for the
underlying terrain, and a second layer, with alpha channel added, for the
cloud cover. 

        Luna is a heightfield generated by my terrain generator, not,
unfortunately, accurate lunar terrain.  

        The scene is lit by a point light source placed where Sol would be.