EMAIL: ffrog@geocities.com NAME: Sean O'Malley TOPIC: Imaginary Worlds COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Biosphere WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/~ffrog RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1 TOOLS USED: Moray, Paint Brush Pro (BMP->JPG), L-System generator RENDER TIME: HARDWARE USED: Pentium 300 Mhz / 48 megs RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Winter at a simple biosphere on a planet far, far away. (Winter - that explains the dead tree!) It was originally going to have more plants but couldn't fit everything in properly because of resolution difficulties and because I wanted more of the sky to be showing. (Sphere actually has some detail obscured, such as a stairway, but...) DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: It's obvious how the sphere was made. :) It has an emission medium inside to produce the blue haze. To create the planet, I took an image map of Neptune and reddened it (I was going to use Jupiter but that would be too obvious - I wanted the planet to look more fictional!). No lens or flare effects (besides, obviously, changing the lens focus parameters) were used in the development of this; the strange optical appearance of the sphere was an artifact of the way it was made. The nebulae in the background were produced (with a heavy amount of tweaking and editing) with ideas from Chris Colefax's Galaxy include. The tree was made using an L-system. I *wish* I could've fit more organics into this, but I like the panoramic view of the way the scene's set up now.