TITLE: Fission
NAME: Benoit Kloeckner
COUNTRY: France
EMAIL: benoit.kloeckner@free.fr
WEBPAGE: n/a
TOPIC: Forces of Nature
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JPGFILE: fission.jpg
ZIPFILE: fission.zip
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IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

A stylised view of nuclear fission. Nuclear fission involves the most 
powerful (at this scale) force of nature_: the strong interaction. 
  The view has very little physical sens. In real life, nucleons do not
look like small balls, moving neutrons do not look like fire, electrons
do not look like little spining balls (even if they did, they would be 
much much far away from the nucleus). In fact, they do not "look like" 
at al.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The first (small) difficulty was to find the right random distribution to get
nucleons and electrons uniformly spred on a sphere. Then, I add some 
scattering media and a light for the exploding atoms, to get the light rays. 
  The moving neutrons and the electrons are emmiting media. For the 
electrons, I wrote a density "torical" function that is the analogous of the 
spherical and cylindrical ones. 
  At last, I randomly placed the background atoms.

