EMAIL: chrfr@chrfr.de NAME: Christian Froeschlin TOPIC: From Rubbage Bin to Junkyard COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Orbital Debris COUNTRY: Germany WEBPAGE: - RENDERER USED: Povray 3.6 TOOLS USED: MS Paint (JPG Conversion) RENDER TIME: 15 minutes HARDWARE USED: Pentium 4 2.6Ghz IMAGE DESCRIPTION: All that orbital debris needs to originate *somewhere* ... DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I revisited an abondoned attempt at planet rendering for this scene. The planet is simply a sphere with an image map from satellite data, a cloud texture layer and atmospheric media. The space suit object is a wrinkled blob. Due to differences in magnitude, the scene suffered from some scaling problems and the blob didn't work as expected. As a workaround, that EVA person is now an amazing moon-sized object located conveniently far away. The various junk objects are rather simple, and the background junk is actually a density map. Most of the above mentioned 15 minutes rendering time were spent loading the high-res version of the satellite image (read: choking on 1 GB memory usage with only 512 MB physically available).