TITLE: "If the Greenhouse Effect Becomes More Pronounced"
NAME: Ralph Roberts
COUNTRY: U.S.
EMAIL: ralph@abooks.com
WEBPAGE: http://ralph.nuoj.com
TOPIC: Epic Proportions
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: greenhou.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.6

TOOLS USED: 
    Pov Ray

HARDWARE USED: 
    1.7 Ghz., Windows 2000

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

By 2150, the Greenhouse Effect had not only become more pronounced, it had
taxpayers protesting truly astronomical window washing bills.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

This image was done all inside of POV-Ray. I used the Ring_Sphere from Friedrich
A. Lohm_ller's Insert Menu Add-on (if you don't have it, get it... saves tons
of time!) as the basis for the greenhouse framework. The glass was made by
creating a sphere just slightly smaller than the framework (using one of the
handy glass textures that Friedrich's menu gives a link to). The earth is from
David Leppik's public domain EarthView. The stars, of course, come from Chris
Colefax's galaxy.inc. ... in all, reasonally simple procedures that amplified
the power of POV-Ray to give us a somewhat humorous piece of epic proportions.


