TITLE: Distant Shores
NAME: Christoph Gerber
COUNTRY: Switzerland
EMAIL: ni.chri@bluewin.ch
WEBPAGE: http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?ByArtist=Y&Artist=gerberc
TOPIC: Future
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: dshore.jpg
ZIPFILE: dshore.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Megapov 0.7

TOOLS USED: 
    Photoshop 5.0 Limited Edition for jpg conversion

RENDER TIME: 
    approx. 2h 30min

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

In a very distant future mankind will travel to the stars and discover many
spectacular places in the universe (at least if we have not extincted ourselfs
long before that time). May be this is one of them.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

First the terrains (beach.pov and hills.pov) were made and a good viewpoint
selected. The rest was basically an exercice in lighting. I came up with one
main light (the sun), one fill light for the landscape and one fill light for
the planet using the lightgroup option. Additionally I used low quality
radiosity.
The following include files were used: 
- rock.inc by John van Sinckle for the stones
- nkflare.inc by Nathan Kopp for the sun flare
- galaxy.inc by Chris Colefax for background nebula
The image maps used are from http://www.3dtextures.fr.st/

