
EMAIL: gswonk@tais.com
NAME: Glenn Swonk
TOPIC: Physics and Math
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Black Holes Suck!
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: n/a
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.0
TOOLS USED: rhino and 3ds2pov
RENDER TIME: 0 hours 30 minutes
HARDWARE USED: Pentium-200

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Inspired by Steven Hawkin's a "Brief History of Time."

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

All objects in the image where created with Rhino and
converted to POV include files using the 3ds2pov utilities.

The grid used for texturing the black hole surface was
also created from POV as a 2D texture.

The background in the image was provided by Lisa Haskin
with some slight modifications.
