TITLE: The Sun and Moon
NAME: John Gardiner
COUNTRY: UK
EMAIL: john@thegardiners.co.uk
TOPIC: Opposites
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: sunmoon.jpg
ZIPFILE: sunmoon.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.6

TOOLS USED: 
    Cloud generator by Gilles Tran. Poser for the face meshes. PoseRay
to import meshes into POV-Ray. Thumbs Plus to convert image to jpg.

RENDER TIME: 
    34m 49s

HARDWARE USED: 
    2.66 GHz Pentium 1.25GB Ram


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


The Sun and Moon must make their haste -
The Stars express around....

(Emily Dickinson)


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Yes I did get stuck trying to describe the image. Emily Dickinson says it better
anyway.

The sun and moon faces are DAZ's Victoria and Michael, pulled into shape with
Poser's Magnet tool, and then imported into POV-Ray via Poseray. The sun's
flames are made out of spheres (see Flame.inc). The moon is a CSG. 

The cloud was harder - I hadn't a clue how to draw a 3D cloud. I spent ages
trying all sorts of things that didn't really work, then did a search and found
Cloud generator by Gilles Tran (http://www.oyonale.com) - and very good it is
too.

I've attached the code but not the proprietary face meshes.