TITLE: Planetary nebula
NAME: Simon Smith
EMAIL: simon_smith@zen.co.uk
TOPIC: Light and Fog
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TOOLS USED: PovRay, trial and error, and a text editor
RENDER TIME: About 28 hours for 1360x1024
HARDWARE USED: 600MHz Iyonix (Arm processor, no FPU :-( )
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
I anticipate many images for this round will be earthly atmospheric effects. A planetary nebula is formed of a stellar atmosphere. But it's an effect my computer could at least model in a reasonable timeframe.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
See my website http://www.simon-smih.org/raytracing in a week or so.