TITLE: Speed is Relative
NAME: Florian Siegmund
COUNTRY: Austria
EMAIL: hobbes-kuscheltiger@gmx.at
TOPIC: Speed
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: sir_fs.jpg
ZIPFILE: sir_fs.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray v3.6

TOOLS USED: 
    Corel Photo-Paint 7 (for creating image maps, and for converting the
final image to jpg)

RENDER TIME: 
    A few hours (about 5 or 6 on my acer laptop, 2.8 GHz)

HARDWARE USED: 
    Acer TravelMate 2203LMi

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Like Einstein said, speed is relative. And so is the speed of a snail. When you
take the whole solar system into view, this snail orbits around the sun with an
approximate speed of about 30 km/sec (18.5 miles/sec). And when you look at the
whole universe and its expansion, the animal is even much faster. But that's
not the point. The velocity of an object can only be measured in comparison to
other objects. And in comparison to bacteria or plants' groth, the snail "is
travelling at high speed" :)

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

For this, please take a look at the source files. Only one thing: the image maps
were all painted in Corel Photo-Paint 7