TITLE: Ice Planet Zero
NAME: Peter Hart
COUNTRY: Canada
EMAIL: teledendron1@yahoo.com
TOPIC: Stills Competition Fire and Ice
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: iceworld.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Lightwave 6.5

RENDER TIME: 
    2 Hours 13 Minutes 58 Seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    Genuine Intel x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 3

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    An ice planet with a fire core
A freak of interplanetary nature, this planet was a failed dwarf star that
travelled into
the orbit of a larger star and collected ice molecules from the planets that
were formed
over millions of years.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

I started with a simple globe at 2 meters and hollowed out a 1.5 meter globe
from it. I
surfaced it with Lightwave's rough ocean shader and tweaked the shader for
transparency,
translucency and reflection. I also altered the colouration for a deeper effect.
I then
placed a point light in the center with a high red flare.