TITLE: Jovian Moons
NAME: Harald Schoenknecht
COUNTRY: Austria (Oesterreich)
EMAIL: harrdy@teleweb.at
WEBPAGE: harrdy.ml.org
TOPIC: First Encounter (Still)
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: 2010.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    povray 3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    Paint Shop Pro,
               L-System (http://www.thinkpiece.com),
               HF-Lab (http://www.best.com/~beale),
               Galaxy "Plug In"
(http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/1434)

RENDER TIME: 
    ~5hrs

HARDWARE USED: 
    AMD233

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


The picture shows the Jovian Moon Europa. There is quite a difference between my
picture
and the idea in "Odyssee 2010" by A.C.Clarke. In 2010 the monolith changes
Jupiter to a
second sun. My picture shows the main theme somehow "softer". Instead of
destroying the
planet the monolith emits energy and after the ice on Europe is melted the first
life
forms are "meeting" the monolith to be "boosted" forward. From a simple algea
the first
"higher" plant is mutated.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


I started the picture with the water. The last topic - as you surely remember -
was
"Water". The picture never got good enough to be contributed. A version of this
early
image is located on my homepage. The actual topic gave me the chance to "build"
a little
longer and so I changed the theme to 2010. I used HF-Lab for the heighfield and
an
L-System for the plant (Spiral04). The image maps for Jupiter and IO came from
JPL
(if you are looking for good maps you may want to start at 
          http://www.lancs.ac.uk/postgrad/thomasc1/render/maps.htm)
and I used a "Plug In" for the starry sky (by Chris Colefax at
ccolefax@geocities.com).
After some attempts with "radiation" I used an area light for the reflected
light of
Jupiter.
The ZIP File is relatively big (7.5MB) but you can DL it at
http://harrdy.ml.org/2010.zip
if you like to.

