EMAIL: nemtos at altern dot org NAME: Nemtos TOPIC: Catastrophe COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Extinction, the return. COUNTRY: France WEBPAGE: http://dark.unitz.ca/~nemtos RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.6 TOOLS USED: Home-made script to turn DEM into mesh, nkflare macro RENDER TIME: 54 seconds HARDWARE USED: Pentium 4, 2.4 GHz, 256 MB. IMAGE DESCRIPTION: One of Hollywood's favourite ways of destroying the Earth! Yes, the White House and the Eiffel Tower will be wiped out, as always! DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The asteroid is a 320,000-triangle mesh2 object built from a DEM of Mars' satellite Phobos with a home-made Perl script. The starfield is built by a home-made macro which puts low-saturation spheres in the camera field (and only there: it saves a LOT of time). The flare is made with the famous nkflare macro, because my own flares do not look so cool... yet! The Earth map comes from http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/ The hardest part was to make the "dem2mesh" script!