TITLE: Parched mankind.
NAME: Nico Kocks
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: cox@gmx.at
WEBPAGE: http://www.kocksi.de
TOPIC: Desert
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: nk_desert.jpg
RENDERER USED:
	Povray 3.5

TOOLS USED:
	Corel Photopaint for conversion and image map creating

RENDER TIME:
	2h 18m 04s

HARDWARE USED:
	Duron 1200, 256 MB Ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Everyone is talking about global warming, melting ice caps, dramatically changing weather 
and floods all over the world.
This truly is a problem, but only a few recognize that our most important resource is going 
to vanish: drinking water.
Therere already wars about water sources. Anyway, were using drinking water to irrigate 
golf cources, gardens and to flush our toilets.
Therefore we wont drown in a flood, well die with thurst. 
Thats what this picture metaphorically stands for.

For further information about drinking water visit: http://studiengang-wasser.de/


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The source file is a joke... I created this image within 3 hours. I was just experimenting 
with isosurfaces and at one point (which was a coincidence) the result remembered me of a 
"round" desert, hence this idea.

For earth I used an isosurface with an image and a crackle pattern, finally textured 
with an image map. I didnt use a image with the real topography of the (empty) 
oceans, because the planet would hard to be recognized as earth. Therefore a flat 
ground for the oceans.
Secondary I oversized the relief a little for same reasons...

For the atmosphere I used a media which I slightly translated towards the light source, 
because I disliked an emitting atmosphere on the shadowside of earth. Additionally I tried 
to make it look really thin, because a loss of water would reverse the greenhouse effect 
and volatilise the atmosphere at one point (like on mars).

The starfield is actually a skysphere with a bozo texture.

The moon is just a sphere with an image map.

I know that there is no chance to gain a good place with this image, but I hope youll 
enjoy anyway... 

For any questions, please write me!


